Inmates get treated better: Alberta cancer patient on stay in hospital storage room [Video]

“I cried,” it was “like being kept in captivity.”

That’s how Rose Roll of Taber described her stay at the Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge after she says she was moved to a bed in a storage closet.

Roll claims she was also forced to find her own bedding, food, water from a vending machine and had to use a public washroom.

“Inmates get treated better,” said Roll in an interview with Global News.

“At least inmates get a toilet, sink and are treated with dignity.”

She was admitted to the hospital on Jan. 19 so she could be closely watched while undergoing a new form of cancer treatment, which she claims can cause serious side effects.

Roll said she was in “a decent room” for the first five days.

She says her stay took a turn when she was told by staff that someone sicker needed that room.

“Some people refer to it as the closet, some staff refer to it …