Disabled man left terrified after hospital trolley ordeal
Danny Aherne A MAN with cerebral palsy was “terrified” after being left on a hospital trolley for three days, he revealed yesterday.
Danny Aherne, 45, was admitted to University Hospital Limerick on January 10 suffering with the flu.
He was left to wait for a bed in horrendous conditions and his ill treatment caused huge distress to his family.
Danny, from the Ballagh area of Limerick, said: “If I were to go back in there again I don’t know what I’d do. I’m terrified of ending up in back in the same situation again.
“I’ve been to many hospitals but I’ve never experienced anything like this, never at all in my life.
“I can’t even put it into words, proper words, you’d have to see it to believe it. It’s just terrifying in there.”
Danny spent three days in A&E where he was moved between an isolation room and the corridor.
He said the conditions were shocking and told Virgin Media News: “There was no care.”
Danny’s sister Sheila Collins told the Irish Mirror it “was like a tsunami”.
She added: “There’s trollies either side of the hall and you have to keep looking for your family member.”