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**Hugh** · 10-12-2019, 14:26

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Having seen the footage, it looks like Boris froze because he realised he was being pulled into a trap. He wanted to explain what he was doing about the NHS before looking at the photograph. I think most people will see through this for what it was - a political stunt, and shame on the mother for using her son in this way.

A nurse appeared on Radio 5 Live this morning to report that through her contacts with other nurses at the hospital, the staff were furious about this and said they would never place the child on the floor- that is not how they were trained. The child was not on a bed, in line with the claim made, but was on a trolley. The mother took him off the trolley, laid him on a pile of coats on the floor and took a photo, then put it out there.

How cynical can you get? Judging by the calls to the radio station that I heard (I had to turn off after 5 minutes), the public have sussed this out for what it is. Clearly, the Labour Party is getting desperate now.

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/le...-four-17385357

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Jack and his worried mum were ‘blue-lighted’ to Leeds General Infirmary after she returned to the doctors as Jack had not improved.

He was seen “very quickly” and given a bed and oxygen in A&E.

A few hours later she was told the bed was needed for another patient.

“A doctor rushed in and said they needed Jack’s bed and literally within a minute all of his stuff was pulled out of the bed," she said.

"The doctor unplugged his oxygen, picked him up and moved us into what I would describe as a cupboard.

"They call it a treatment room. It was a room without a bed.

"His oxygen was connected to the wall but he did not have a bed and he was really unwell.

"He kept asking to lay down. He was without a bed for four-and-a-half hours.

“He needed to go to sleep and he needed to lay down. He started falling asleep and he ended up going to sleep on a pile of coats.

'He just had to sleep on the floor'

“There was no bed for him in A&E and there was no bed for him on the ward, so he just had to sleep on the floor.

“The room was full of medical supplies. Doctors and nurses were coming in constantly saying ‘sorry, can I just take this, can I just take that.

“I don’t have any issues with the doctors and the nurses, they were really lovely people and I want to make that clear.

“I was just feeling despair. He was so ill and I didn’t know why he was ill.

"I thought if he has got pneumonia, laying on a cold floor is not going to do him any good. He was so grey, he looked so ill.”

At 10pm Jack was taken to the hospital’s Children’s Assessment and Treatment Unit, where he was put on a trolley for five hours and had a series of tests.

She said her son was “confused and exhausted”.

“He just kept saying ‘I want to go to sleep’. He was laying on a plastic mattress with a sheet of paper pulled across him.”

She added: “The problem is they (the medics) were so busy and there weren’t enough beds. They just seemed stressed and under pressure.”

At 3am Jack got a bed on the ward and slept for a few hours, with his mum sat in a seat alongside him.

The LGI Chief Medical Officer apologised for the fact there was no bed in the treatment room, only chairs - they don’t have trolleys in treatment rooms.