'Absolute nightmare' hospital where patients are wheeled through 'bird faeces'

Bird droppings in University Hospital of Wales

A 77-year-old man with emphysema left shivering after a ward’s heating failed. An 80-year-old, in the final hours of his life, transported through a pigeon-infested tunnel where water dripped from the ceiling onto his bed. A member of staff who says working in Wales’ largest hospital has become “an absolute nightmare”. These are just some of the disturbing accounts emerging from Cardiff ’s University Hospital of Wales in the two weeks since it was revealed that almost 300 consultants had written to senior management warning that staff morale had sunk to an “all-time low”.

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Staff and patients describe the hospital as dangerously dilapidated, with recurring sewage leaks, water damage, and pigeon infesta