\n Kayleigh Isbell, 20, was rushed to Ipswich Hospital by ambulance after she started experiencing ‘horrible’ stomach pains at 11pm last Thursday.\n<\/p>\n
\n She says paramedics handed her to A&E staff as ‘high risk’ yet after eight hours she was still to be seen by staff until a kitchen porter led her to the maternity ward.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kayleigh Isbell, 20, was rushed to hospital by ambulance after suffering from ‘horrible stomach pain’ (Image: Contributed)\n<\/p>\n
\n Miss Isbell said: “I was feeling frustrated, I was feeling very upset, anxious and I wanted to give up and go home, but I needed to know if my baby was okay.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I had to push through and I had to stay there. They made me feel uncomfortable and made me feel like I didn’t matter.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Miss Isbell – who is six weeks pregnant – spent five hours in A&E through the night without being seen before she took herself to the toilet to vomit.\n<\/p>\n
\n With the pain worsening and after hours of pleading for painkillers, she was given paracetamol.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ipswich Hospital is part of East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n But after seven hours of waiting, Miss Isbell and her boyfriend were told it would be another seven hours before they would be seen.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I was screaming and crying, I couldn’t take anymore so I tried to take myself to the maternity ward.” Miss Isbell said.\n<\/p>\n
\n “A kitchen porter found me crying and realised I was high risk and took me straight to the maternity ward.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The maternity ward realised the urgent nature of Miss Isbell’s condition and began a number of tests.\n<\/p>\n
\n They found that both her and her foetus were healthy and put the pain down to a large build-up of bowel gas.\n<\/p>\n
\n Catherine Morgan. Chief Nurse and Director of Infection Prevention and Control at ESNEFT (Image: ESNEFT)\n<\/p>\n
\n ESNEFT Chief Nurse Catherine Morgan said: \u201cWe were very sorry to learn about Miss Isbell\u2019s experience in our emergency department at Ipswich Hospital.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The concerns she and her partner have raised will go through our formal complaints process. Our teams will now investigate further.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe will share the outcome of this investigation with Miss Isbell and Mr Arrowsmith as soon as it is complete. They will be fully involved with our findings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kayleigh Isbell, 20, was rushed to Ipswich Hospital by ambulance after she started experiencing ‘horrible’ stomach pains at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-401200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}