For the latest Tameside news sign up to the MyTameside newsletter here A teenage girl waited alone overnight in A&E after being called into hospital by a doctor to have her appendix removed.
Rachel Logan says her daughter Grace, 17, was suffering with acute appendicitis when she was told by a doctor to visit Tameside General Hospital at 6pm on Friday (July 2).
Grace then waited until 5.30am the following morning before finally being placed on a ward. She has since had an operation to remove her appendix.
Rachel, from Glossop, told the M.E.N: “It absolutely broke me that there was nothing I could do. “I understand what the staff and nurses are going through.
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