A toddler suffering from tonsillitis had to sleep on a cold hospital floor for a shocking eight hours while she waited to be seen by a doctor.
Two-year-old Isabella Dalton was not allowed to sleep in a bed - despite several being available - until she had been examined.
The tot, whose temperature had rocketed to nearly 42 degrees due to her tonsillitis and ear infection, could not be seen by anyone at the Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire as they were short-staffed.
She and another child had to bed down on the waiting room floor while 12 beds remained empty.
Isabella?s furious mum Jessica, 22, said one doctor who saw the girls on the floor ?did nothing? about the situation.
She fumed: ?Isabella slept on the cold, hard floor in the waiting room surrounded by empty beds.
"Either side of the waiting room were rooms with around a dozen beds in. We could see them every time the doors opened.
"But I asked time and time again whether she could have one to make her more comfortable and they just kept telling me she couldn?t leave the waiting room until she had been seen.
"A doctor came into the waiting room to speak to one of the other parents, looked at the girls asleep on the floor and did nothing.
"Even if she had been given a blanket or anything to make her more comfortable would have been something, but she?s only a baby and she didn?t know how to try and make herself feel better.?
Isabella was finally seen at 7.30am - after arriving at 10.55pm the previous night - and was treated with antibiotics.
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