'It’s like a third world country' Patients hit out at struggling London A&E ("Accident and Emergency" hospitals)

'It’s like a third world country' Patients hit out at struggling London A&E | UK | News | Daily Express:
"PATIENTS have blasted a struggling A&E department and said nurses were seen laughing as beds piled up in a corridor.
The under-fire emergency department at North Middlesex University Hospital, Edmonton, north London has been threatened with closure and patients have been quick to criticise the service.
One of London’s busiest A&E departments, Express.co.uk saw patients told they faced a minimum three hour wait on a quiet Tuesday morning.
A sick bowl was left on a chair and bloodstains were left on the floor as at least 30 people were made to wait for initial assessment at the hospital’s urgent care unit.
A man with a broken arm spent four hours in the unit before his arm was put in a cast as patients revealed the area around x-ray was “in chaos”.
As patients crowded into the waiting room one eyewitness reported seeing two girls arrive with saucepans full of food ready for a long wait.
She said: “I saw two girls down here with saucepans full of food.
They had a baby with them and had covered the pans but how long did they think they were going to have to wait.”
The busy waiting room was full of patients from Eastern Europe including Lithuania and Ukraine and a TV screen flashing notices asked patients if they needed a translator.
A third of the population of Enfield was born outside the UK and the borough’s population rocketed by 14.2 per cent between 2001 and 2011..."