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The family of a woman who died after spending 12 hours on a hospital trolley in a corridor said the A&E department looked like 'a scene from a war zone'.

They said up to 30 patients were lying on trolleys in corridors with other sick people spread across the floor and seats.

Speaking outside a pre-inquest hearing into the death of Tamara Davis, her mother, Sue, said: 'It was absolute carnage in there, a right scene. It was like something out of a war zone.

'There were 30 people on trolleys waiting for proper treatment and more people on the floor and seats. It was a total mess.'

Tamara, 31, was rushed to the Royal Sussex County Hospital by car on the evening of December 10 2022 after complaining of breathing difficulties.

The pre-inquest hearing in at Brighton Town Hall was was told her partner, Raphael Ifil, had desperately phoned 999 five times to try and get an emergency ambulance.

When they failed to come he got his brother to drive Tamara the three miles to Royal Sussex County Hospital.

Her mother told the pre-inquest hearing: 'Raf could not get an ambulance. He spent two hours trying to get one. Five times he called and couldn't get one.'

Outside the hearing the family said that when he got there she began to fit so he picked her up and rushed her into A&E.

She was immediately sent through to a cubicle in A&E where she was given oxygen before being wheeled out on the trolley into the corridor where she waited for 10 hours.

Her devastated younger sister Miya, 25, who rushed to the hospital to be by her side, said staff just forgot about her sister.

She said: 'They were meant to be caring for her but they simply forgot about her and she was just left there curled up in a ball on the trolley in the corridor.

'We felt powerless. It was crazy. They gave her some antibiotics but then they missed giving her another dose even though they wrote it on her notes.

'That

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