Another picture has emerged of a sick child having to wait for hours for treatment in hospital.

On Monday, a photo of a four-year-old suffering from suspected pneumonia having to lie on the floor of Leeds General Infirmary due to a lack of beds caused a national furore over the state of the NHS.

Jack Williment had to be covered in coats for four hours by his worried mother as he waited for a bed to become available in the hospital. When he was finally moved to a ward, he had another five-hour wait on a trolley before a bed was found for him.

Boris Johnson's refusal to look at the photo of Jack - instead pocketing the phone with the picture on it - sparked a fierce backlash on Monday.

And on Tuesday, the Mirror published a photo of a second child, Lily, who had to wait for a bed for six hours at the Countess of Chester Hospital - with the nine-month-old being forced to instead sleep on a hospital chair.

(Image: Mirror)

Lily's mum, Louise, 23, said her baby was suffering from an ear infection, vomiting, diarrhoea and was badly dehydrated.

Louise, Lily and her dad, Thomas Noden, 24, were signed in to A&E hospital at 12.45am last Wednesday.

Yet they had to wait until 6am before she was seen by a doctor.

It was a further hour before Lily was seen by a children’s specialist who Louise said told them: “We have not got enough beds.”

Louise and Thomas stayed up all night, with their sick baby on a chair. They took their photo at 2am.

Louise said the overstretched medics did their best and blamed austerity for the problems the family were hit with.

But she said "something needs to change".

She said: “To sit in a hospital and see at first hand the situation, it really opens your eyes.”

Dr Susan Gilby, chief executive at the hospital, told the Mirror: “We apologise to anyone who has to wait longer than four hours. We would be very grateful to receive their feedback.”

Backlash to PM

Boris Johnson has continued to have to defend his reaction to the picture of Jack Williment when being interviewed by an ITV reporter on Monday afternoon.

Mr Johnson initially refused to look at the photo, before reporter Joe Pike said to him: "You refuse to look at the photo. You've taken my phone and put it in your pocket Prime Minister."

Mr Johnson then took the phone out of his pocket, looked at the photo on the screen, and said: "It's a terrible, terrible photo.

"And I apologise obviously to the families and all those who have terrible experiences in the NHS.

"But what we are doing is supporting the NHS, and on the whole I think patients in the NHS have a much, much better experience than this poor kid has had.

"That's why we're making huge investments into the NHS, and we can only do it if we get Parliament going, if we unblock the current deadlock, and we move forward."

At the end of the interview, Mr Johnson said: "I'm sorry to have taken your phone. There you go."

Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: "Refusing to even look at an image of a child suffering because of Conservative cuts to the NHS is a new low for Boris Johnson. It's clear he could not care less.

"Don't give this disgrace of a man five more years of driving our NHS into the ground.

"Sick toddlers like Jack deserve so much better."

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