Health service chaos - Inhuman and unacceptable

IT IS difficult to understand how any health service, and in this instance that description requires a leap of faith, could treat Graham Dempsey as it did this weekend.

Health service chaos - Inhuman and unacceptable

Mr Dempsey is severely handicapped, he cannot walk or talk, suffers from MS and scoliosis.

This weekend he spent 30 hours on a hospital trolley, vomiting and in pain. He waited overnight for a bed before his family took him home, but not before they had to change his nappies in public.

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