Dad’s nightmare 31-hour A&E wait after being told his 'colon might have burst’

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A dad-of-two waited 31 hours in an A&E NHS department after being told he could need immediate surgery. Muhammad Ehsan, 44, claims a consultant told him to go to A&E fearing his colon might have burst.

However, when got there he had to sit on a “hard, plastic” chair for hours with a “really sore stomach” after being told there were no beds available in IT chaos-hit hospital.

The patient who has colitis, a condition where the colon and rectum can become inflamed, waited more than a day - only to be sent home with medication.

He was ‘going to the toilet about 10 to 15 times a day’ in the five days before his trip to A&E. “My consultant advised me to go to hospital to be checked - which I said I didn’t particularly want to do,” said Muhammad Ehsan.“The consultant said he was really worried my colon might have burst and that I could need emergency surgery, which would only be possible if I was in a hospital bed.