Hospital officials in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, are denying claims by President Donald Trump that doctors left operating rooms to meet him when he visited the medical facilities after mass shootings, The Hill is reporting.
“The doctors were coming out of the operating rooms,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “There were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor. You couldn’t even walk on it.”
But officials say that never happened.
“At no time did, or would, physicians or staff leave active operating rooms during the presidential visit,” Ryan Mielke, a spokesman for University Medical Center of El Paso, said in a statement to The Washington Post. “Our priority is always patient care.”
And Ben Sutherly, a spokesman for Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, maintained no doctor left an operating room to meet with Trump, The Hill reported.
“Our physicians and staff at no time leave an active operating room, procedural area or patient room to greet anyone," Sutherly said.
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