Geraldine Newing, 78, was admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent with a septic foot infection on Good Friday, March 29.
A great-grandmother had her right leg amputated after spending four days on a trolley in a hospital corridor, her family have claimed.
Mrs Newing's son, father-of-two Michael Newing, has blasted the standard of care she received and claimed she may not have needed as much of her leg amputated if she had been treated sooner. The family first called for medical attention at the end of last month at Ms Newing's home in Sittingbourne, Kent and decided to go to MedOCC - an on-call service dealing with urgent care problems when GP surgeries are closed - when her condition deteriorated.
'Maybe she would have lost her foot or a few toes or something. The surgeon said that if he hadn't amputated the leg, my mum wouldn't be here now.'
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