A FRANTIC family rushed their badly injured son to a Merseyside casualty ward after a motorbike crash - and were given a map to another hospital.
Joshua Brindle, aged nine, was screaming in pain and covered in blood from a mini-motor-bikecrash when he was taken to South-port hospital.
But his parents say staff insisted he had to be treated at Ormskirk Hospital's accident and emergency department seven miles away, and gave them a map to get there.
The family got lost and ended up driving 22 miles to Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool.
Joshua's treatment will reignite the row over children's services in the resort after the children's accident and emergency department was moved from Southport Hospital to Ormskirk Hospital in 2003.
Today a spokesman said there was no record of last Thursday's incident and said children could get initial treatment there.
But his mother Lisa Madden, who is 32 weeks' pregnant, said: "It was terrible. Joshua was screaming for someone to help him.
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