24 hours of HELL in top NYC hospital: Patients left lying in hallways and urine soaked floors | Daily Mail Online
Twenty-four hours of hell in one of New York’s top hospitals have been laid bare with pictures showing patients lying in hallways, urine soaking the floor and staff incapable of providing answers.
A woman who asked not to be named told DailyMail.com that she rushed her mother to the Mount Sinai Hospital on Madison Avenue on March 8 because she suspected the 67-year-old was having a stroke.
This was ruled out by a CAT scan carried out within 10 minutes. But then a nightmarish day for the sufferer and her daughter began as they were left waiting in the ER ward in limbo, desperate to find out what was wrong. littering the floor, urine pots used by male patients kicked over and homeless people seeking treatment but totally ignored by staff.
It comes amid patient backlogs and staffing shortages after the pandemic that have stretched New York hospitals to breaking point and sparked strikes by nurses.
NYC is getting back to the way it used to be.