A PORTHMADOG care home has been criticised for forcing residents to wear “communal underwear” and leaving one resident shouting “pain, pain” with no medical assessment.

A Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales report has documented the shocking treatment that some care home residents at Meddyg Care Home (pictured) in Porthmadog had to endure.

The report details that residents were denied “dignity and privacy” and that the management had failed to manage the care home with sufficient care, competence and skill.

The new owners of Meddyg Care Home, who took over the facility towards the end of 2017, have said the report is not “a fair and accurate reflection of the nursing home now” after they have made “significant changes in the day to day functioning of the home” in recent months.

The damning report lists numerous concerns including patients being left alone for up to seven hours when in need of urgent medical attention, residents being improperly assessed when in pain, and medical conditions such as diabetes not being supervised.

Inspectors, who visited the home in February this year, also witnessed one person who had been put on the toilet with a “hoist wedging the cubicle door open” so they were visible from the corridor.

The inspectors also found that “communal underwear” was in use and recommended against this practice in future.

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