The family of a vulnerable gran are furious after claiming she was left in a waiting room with coronavirus-positive patients for three hours.
Christine Guttridge has been shielding for eight months to avoid being exposed to the disease but her loved ones say that's exactly what happened when she attended the Royal Stoke University Hospital for a routine procedure.
The 75-year-old had no symptoms for the illness except breathlessness but her family say as she suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart problems that was not unusual.
Daughter Michelle Thorley claims her mum was left in the hospital waiting room for hours, Stoke on Trent Live reports, and ended up taking her home before treatment because the elderly