Dad died in Broomfield Hospital ‘left rolling around like dog’

Thomas Jr said his father was lying on the floor in “agonising, groaning pain in front of everybody”.

“I asked for a screen to be put up in the hospital for his dignity because he was a very proud man,” he said.

“But the doctor looked at me and said, ‘Tell [the other patients] to look the other way then’.”

Thomas Jr added: “They didn’t care about him. They left him like a dog rolling around on the floor. It was inhumane.”

He said he realised that his father had suddenly gone quiet.

“[I will never forget] the gruesome sight of my father on the floor, blue in the face with white froth dripping from his mouth,” Thomas Jr told the BBC.

The 19-year-old said CPR was then administered by medical staff on the waiting room floor, before his father was moved through double-doors next to the waiting room, where he was declared dead soon afterwards.