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A grandad resorted to sleeping on a hospital floor during a 12-hour wait for a trolley. Martin Wakely’s wife says it is “disgusting” he felt he had no choice but to lie down outside an X-ray room at Medway Maritime Hospital after it became too painful for him to continue sitting on a plastic chair. Medway NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, has apologised but added it was continuing to see a high number of patients who needed admitting for treatment, and that staff were working tirelessly to provide the best possible care at a “particularly busy time”. Martin’s long wait for somewhe…