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Ras Al Khaimah: An elderly woman refused to leave the Ras Al Khaimah Medical Centre on Monday and return home in protest against her children's attitude towards her.
Sources at the hospital said that the 70-year-old woman who has diabetes arrived at the hospital for her regular treatment, but was defiant about returning home since she alleged her children were not looking after her.
The woman said her children ordered their driver to take her to the hospital and leave her there alone.
Hospital staff gave the woman full medical treatment, but she remained sitting on a bench crying afterward.
Sources told Gulf News that officials told the woman that she would have to leave when the hospital closed at 2:30pm.
The woman refused and claimed that she had nowhere to go. Hospital management offered to drive the woman home, but she refused.
Finally, the management called the police to handle the issue.
Police personnel also offered the woman a ride home, but she insisted on staying at the hospital. The emotional 70-year-old was distressed and in tears.
The hospital management and police sympathised with the woman and managed to contact her children, but they would not come to the hospital to pick her up.
The woman finally agreed to be admitted to another hospital.
An ambulance took her to another medical facility where some senior Emiratis pledged to get involved.
The woman finally returned from Saif Bin Ghobash Hospital to her home after people called on one of her sons and requested him to come and get his mother and drive her home.
Hospital management offered to drive the woman back home, but she refused ... Police personnel also tried to offer the woman a ride back home, but she insisted on staying at the hospital. The emotional 70-year-old ... was in tears.
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