article_snippet.sent: These shocking photographs show the bed where a severely disabled boy was left to sleep for seven nights in hospital.
article_snippet.sent: These shocking photographs show two mattresses squeezed together on the cramped hospital floor, with wires from an oxygen tank and tubes dangling across the room.
article_snippet.sent: But rather than a bed in the children's ward, has had to sleep on a mattress on the floor since arriving.
article_snippet.sent: The eight-year-old - who has Down's syndrome, epilepsy, autism and is fed by a tube - has been without a hospital bed because staff do not have the special cot he needs to keep he safe in he sleep.
article_snippet.sent: he mother, Lynne, 48, has slept on the floor alongside he for the past week.
article_snippet.sent: and I don't understand why they still don't have a suitable bed. '
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Neatis said Mrs Neatis cannot believe Mrs Neatis are forced to sleep on the floor during a stay in hospital.
article_snippet.sent: We have one of the special needs beds at home
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Neatis said Mrs Neatis was told the hospital did get a special bed and used a special bed on a trial basis, but a special bed proved unsatisfactory.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Neatis said: 'When they came up with the idea of sleeping on a mattress on the floor I told they I would take Mrs Neatis home as we had a bed there
article_snippet.sent: a special bed wouldn't be left unused, a special bed claims.
article_snippet.sent: a special bed said: 'I know of other parents who have had the same problem and have brought other parents who have had the same problem and have brought their own special needs beds with them from home own special needs beds with other parents who have had the same problem and have brought their own special needs beds with them from home from home.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Was admitted to Hospital   but has had to sleep on a mattress on the floor .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Needs a special high-sided bed to sleep in as he moves around in the night .
  