She broke the foot several days ago and was transported to the hospital. They wanted to get her into surgery but delayed because of possible incoming covid cases and sent her home.
Two days later she's been sitting in the same chair at home because she can't walk, and her hygiene is uncared for. An ambulance was called again today but when they arrived the medics told them that the hospital wasn't admitting anything but 'emergency' patients, and apparently a 92 year old woman with a broken foot stewing in her own juice in a living room chair isn't an emergency.
This is a motherfucking crime, and neither the government nor the health care system gives one shit about it. I'm boiling with hatred for every one of these thugs.
You want socialism healthcare, you can get socialism healthcare: Have no rooms? Put people in the halls. Have no beds? Put them on the floor.
Hospitals in socialized medicine countries have done this for years and years, long before COVID.
Fixing a foot takes a couple hours. Not days, not weeks, hours. Then you send them home with lots of orders not to fuck it up. I've had friends who've needed such surgeries due to workplace accidents, needed to get rods put in and whatnot. They were out same-day.
If one singular bed, in a hallway, will make or break things... Then you've fucked up seriously.
On which note... COVID patients need to be isolated and sequestered. They should be far, FAR away from surgery: There should be space in Surgery. And they need to be kept distanced: There should be beds, too, since hospitals are effectively barracks prior to COVID and need to lose basically every second bed now, so a ton of beds should be lying around.
Something is fishy about both your and OP's accounts of things. Information is being left out somewhere along the informational supply chains.