And she has claimed that if HSE plans to close the A&E in Our Lady's hospital in Navan had gone ahead she would have faced an even worse situation.
A distraught young Mum feared her teenage son was going to die on the back seat of her car after they became stuck in rush hour Christmas traffic when she was taking him to hospital after he became seriously ill.
READ MORE:Desperate mum surviving off children's leftovers and cups of tea says she can't afford Christmas "It took us just over twenty minutes to get there, double the normal time, and if we had been forced to bring him to Drogheda as the HSE are insisting we should I dread to think what might have happened, I don't think he would have made it.
"When we got to Drogheda's emergency department, it was, complete chaos, There were people lying on chairs, there were mothers with babies and kids everywhere.
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