Gov’t Health Care: Lack of Water Forces Patients to Drink From Vases at UK Hospital

(By Jonathon M. Seidl, The Blaze) - Thirsty patients at a British hospital were so desperate for care and especially water that they had to drink from flower vases, family members claim.

Julie Bailey, one such family member whose mother Bella died at the hospital in question, said patients were left “screaming” out in pain on chaotic and under-staffed wards at Stafford Hospital. When she approached the hospital about the matter, she said it told her it could not leave water out overnight due to “health and safety.”

Bailey told her story to a panel looking into the situation, the Daily Mail reports.