Girl, 2, suffering asthma attack left lying on hospital floor for EIGHT HOURS amid NHS ‘crisis’
Little Brooke is just one NHS patient left suffering with the service stretched increasingly thin
A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl suffering from an asthma attack was forced to sit on a thin mat on a hospital floor in shocking new images showing the NHS in "chaos".
Little Brooke Burden was rushed to hospital with a high temperature, vomiting and struggling to breathe - but on arrival, she was given a small side room without a bed.
Staff at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent, gave her a thin blanket with her mother Gaby Burden saying her distressed daughter was not seen for eight hours.
She told : "Brooke needed to lie down because she was struggling even more to breathe when I held her, so we didn’t have a choice.
"I sat down next to her to comfort her. The mat was so thin you wouldn’t even let a dog sleep on it. I can’t believe this is now how the NHS treats children. It’s disgusting.”
The single mum said the incident, which happened in November last year, had left her disillusioned with the NHS - which has since launched an investigation.
She said: "This happened in November, long before the stories started to emerge this week from A&Es. It isn’t a short-term crisis. It’s here to stay unless this Government sorts it out.”
East Kent Hospitals has since apologised for the treatment of little Brooke.
It's not the first time children have been left vulnerable by the NHS this week, with toddler Jack Harwood's mother revealing that she had to use a makeshift bed of chairs to give her son a bed in an overcrowded A&E unit.
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They are just the latest incidents to plague the NHS in recent months, with warnings that it has been crumbling under mounting pressure - with four in ten English hospitals declaring a major alert this week.
Two-year-old boy Jenson was also made to wait for five hours for a bed at the Hull Royal Infirmary.
His distressed mum Kimberley Feeney said: "I only saw two doctors on shift the whole time and they were obviously short of beds.
"All we could do was put chairs together so he could rest."
Record numbers of sick and vulnerable waiting for more than 12 hours for treatment have been revealed - with hard-working staff no match for the huge numbers of needy patients.
Videos have emerged of toilets overflowing and taps running dry at hospitals with bosses forced to ship in bottled water for desperate patients.
But Prime Minister Theresa May has rejected claims of a "humanitarian crisis" facing the NHS - but admitted that there were ";huge pressures" facing the system.
It comes after voters were revealed to believe the National Health Service was safer under the Conservatives than under Jeremy Corbyn's Labour.
But NHS bosses saw their pay packets rise this year, with three chiefs all earning more than the Prime Minister's salary.
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