'Child seriously ill with Covid' told by staff he would have to lie on floor of hospital for up to SIX hours, says mum

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A furious mum has shared her ‘disgust’ after claiming she and her ‘very poorly’ son were left sitting on the concrete ground for hours in a Covid waiting area at a hospital.

She says their treatment at Fairfield General Hospital, in Bury, was ‘degrading’, as they were forced to sit and lie on the floor ‘like they were in a zoo’.

The ‘makeshift’ Covid-19 waiting area is made up of the ‘pavement outside A&E’ and ‘PVC walls’, claims the mum. READ MORE:Greater Manchester's social care has 'never been in so much trouble' as bosses issue dire warning of 'perfect storm' The frustrated mum captured alarming images, showing her 14-year-old on the floor, after staff ‘told them they would have to sit on the floor’ of the ‘coronavirus waiting area’,