‘TRAPPED’ BY HOSP

‘Wrongfully held’ in psych ward despite ailing ma

An ailing Queens woman was abandoned in her own home when her son was wrongly held as a psychiatric patient, he claims in an $18 million lawsuit.

Diabetic Alfred Sipp, 66, ended up at Queens Hospital Center last summer when he fainted from low blood sugar while in a Jamaica laundromat. But things got weird once he got to the emergency room, Sipp said.

Despite telling a doctor his then89-year-old mom was home alone in St. Albans, the physician asked if Sipp “would need to see a psychiatrist,” he claims in a Brooklyn federal-court lawsuit.

“I have no history of mental ill- ness,” Sipp (right) told The Post. “I was never in a mental institution. I was calm.”

Sipp asked why the doctor mentioned a psychiatrist, but was allegedly ignored.

“I kept saying, ‘When am I leaving,’ because I knew my mother was [home alone]. I was worried about her . . . They acted like they didn’t hear me.”

A group of nurses tried to remove his clothes without warning, tied him to a bed and sedated him against his will, Sipp charges in the legal claim against the city and the hospital.

“Two husky guys came over. They grabbed me by the arms,” he said. “They tied my hands to the bed rails. I tried to resist. I tried to move my arms but they were two strong guys. I said, ‘What’s going on? What are you all doing?’ They didn’t say why I was being put in the psych ward. Nobody was telling me anything. “I was scared.” Hospital staff even refused to let Sipp use a bathroom, forcing him to defecate in his clothes, he claims in court papers.

He spent two days knocked out in the hospital before waking up, he says in the suit.

When he was finally discharged, he said, “I felt like an abandoned person. I felt homeless.”

He caught a bus home and found his mom, recent stroke victim Mildred Demostheme, had fallen out of bed, gone three days without food or medicine and was “extremely dehydrated.”

“I was shocked when I saw my mom on the floor,” Sipp said. “I felt awful.”

He says in his lawsuit that the facility subjected him to “great fear, terror, personal humiliation and degradation.”

The city said it will review the lawsuit. Health + Hospitals called patient safety “our highest priority.”

Meanwhile, Sipp says he’ll never go back to Queens Hospital Center.

“Hell no. Not even for a cold.”