AN EPILEPTIC woman who heard a paramedic say she was playacting and deserved a Grammy while he treated her after a fit, has had an apology from his bosses.

Georgina Walker collapsed in Barclays Bank, in Sittingbourne High Street, on January 18, and says she heard the paramedic say she was playacting and "needed a needle up the bum".

After she complained to the South East Coast Ambulance Service, Mrs Walker, 44, received a letter of apology and a promise of a full investigation.

In a statement a spokesman said: “The trust is concerned to learn of this incident and would like to reassure Mrs Walker that the matter is under investigation and the findings will be shared with her.

“In the meantime, the trust would like to apologise to Mrs Walker and her family for any distress this matter may have caused.”

Mrs Walker of Murston Road, was at the bank with her father.

She said: “We were queuing up and I could feel the seizure coming on so I went to sit down and just put my head in my hands, but I fell to the floor. One of the staff closed the door and called an ambulance for me.

"When it arrived, I was paralysed. I couldn’t move or feel anyone touching me, but I could hear what the paramedic was saying. He said I was playacting and deserved a Grammy award.”

She was taken to hospital where she says she also heard the paramedic say 'give her a big needle up the bum, that’s what she wants’.

“I couldn’t respond,” she said. “It was humiliating, disrespectful and insensitive.”

Mrs Walker has since complained to the Patient Advice and Liaison Services and is awaiting a visit from the South East Coast Ambulance Service to investigate the complaint.

She said: “This man should be reprimanded. I don’t want anyone else to go through what I went through.”