Pony walks into UK hospital confuses patients

Patients were left wondering whether to add hallucinations to their list of symptoms when they saw a pony walking down the corridor at a Shropshire hospital.

But the four-legged visitor was as real as MRSA and seemed quite content as it strolled to the X-ray department at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital.

Police and RSPCA officers were called over the weekend to help remove the escaped pony which had wandered in from a nearby field.

After about 20 minutes they were finally able to coax it out using apples from the hospital courtyard.

One patient said: "I din't know what to think, I came out of a check up and my husband said he had seen a horse in the hospital - I almost told him he should go and see the doctor."