A 94-year-old woman was left on a hospital trolley for 36 hours after suffering what is believed to have been a stroke. Rita Holohan became “light-headed, dizzy and confused” days after completing an indoor skydive, which was on her bucket list.

Paramedics were called at around 9.30pm on Friday and when they arrived, said she had suffered a mini-stroke. The great-grandmother of five was taken to accident and emergency at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Lynn, Norfolk, where she remained on a trolley for 36 hours.

She was eventually transferred to a ward. Daughter Beverley Pegg said her care had been “a joke.” “This time last week she was indoor skydiving, and this week lying in a hospital bed without knowing what’s wrong,” Beverley said.

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