A woman whose 92-year-old mother waited 30 hours on a trolley at an Edinburgh A&E department has described the situation as “like a war zone”.

Jessie Wallace was taken to the accident and emergency department at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh after becoming unwell last week.

Her daughter Lynn Harrison said the ordeal has affected her mother so badly that she now fears for her life.

Ms Harrison, from Port Seton, told STV News that her mother had first become poorly on Boxing Day.

Her condition deteriorated, and on December 30, her GP advised that she be admitted to hospital.

“Mum was taken by ambulance to A&E in Edinburgh,” Ms Harrison said.

She waited three hours in the ambulance – and I then had to insist that I go in with her.

“When we got into A&E it was jam packed. It was absolute chaos, it was like a war zone. Just pandemonium.

“I said to the doctor I hoped it wasn’t going to be too long, as mum was already getting confused – she said to me, ‘your mum could be here for as long as 50 hours’.

“I just burst out crying”.

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