Woman taken to hospital after seizure in charity shop

Date published: 21 October 2016


A woman in her early 50s has been taken to Fairfield General Hospital after she suffered an epileptic seizure in Scope charity shop on Yorkshire Street in Rochdale on Friday afternoon (21 October).

An eyewitness said: “She went down and bumped her head. Luckily, she had her doctor with her, who called the ambulance, which arrived almost straight away.”

A spokesperson for North West Ambulance said: "We were called at 12.58pm and took the woman to Fairfield, where she was treated for a seizure."

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