A social worker left in severe pain by a finger injury was forced to spend a fevered night sleeping in a fitness room at Fiona Stanley Hospital — three years after similar issues at the $2 billion facility were raised with health bosses. Claire Fisher, 45, was told she needed urgent surgery after being bitten or stung on the finger at her southern suburbs home last Wednesday as she hung out the washing. But after being treated in the emergency department and admitted to Fiona Stanley’s ward 4C, she was also told she would have to sleep in a fitness room-store room, full of trolleys, stools and an exercise bike — but little medical equipment. The mother-of-one was also given a bell to ring if she needed help, which she did when she began vomiting. But the bell could not be heard by nurses — so Ms Fisher had to search for staff to give her some pain medication. “The staff were wonderful, caring, and attentive — but I was really surprised at the room they had to put me in,” Ms Fisher said. “They seemed embarrassed at having to do it. “A nurse told me the hospital always puts people in that room … and the staff hate it.
