“Her general condition I would describe as poor. She looked unclean, her hair was matted and unkempt. “She was dirty from faeces and in my opinion she had been in this condition for some considerable time.”
Edith Evans. Picture: PA She added: “I was quite shocked at her appearance and the way she was left at the care home to come to A&E without anybody with her.” Mrs Pulman said she was asked to contact the nursing home to find out why she had not been accompanied to the hospital and was sent without medical records. The inquest heard she spoke to the home’s nurse-matron Philip McCaffrey about the widow.
A&E nurse shocked by care home patient arriving unclean and dirty from faeces
A coroner has heard how dementia patient Edith Evans appeared to have been neglected at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar. She arrived in hospital filthy having been so for some considerable time
Pensioner Edith Evans was taken to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil where she later died (Image: Media Wales Ltd)
An elderly woman was left so poorly neglected by nursing home staff that hospital workers were left shocked by her condition, an inquest has heard.
Dementia patient Edith Evans, 85, was suffering from MRSA and an infection to a feeding tube to her stomach.
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