A & E waiting rooms gonna have to be kitted out like a first class cabin so everyone can have a lie down while they wait
He wasn't in an A & E waiting room, he was in a treatment room after being assessed and treated already - they were waiting to admit him to the hospital.
They
should have had a bed for him while he waited to be admitted onto the paedeatric ward but they
did have chairs.
He evidently found it more comfortable to lie on a stack of coats while he waited than sit in a chair.
If it was an adult in the same situation - and there probably were many of those on the same night as this in that A&E - then the wait to be admitted is bad, but nobody would think it was particularly out of the ordinary.
It was a stupid journalistic trick to tug at emotions rather than a sensible jounalistic article - like if those super busy nights were increasingly common because of austerity - but people are always going to care more about a picture of a child than they are about a table full of numbers.
Having said that, kudos to Johnson for managing to handle it in the worst possible way.
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