The daughter of a prominent and respected Krauatungalang Gunai Elder alleges her father was neglected after she was told by the hospital that he slipped in the bathroom, despite him needing assistance to walk.

The father of acclaimed author Veronica Gorrie, John Gorrie PSM, was admitted to Sale Hospital last Wednesday afternoon after suffering from a seizure and stroke.

Ms Gorrie missed a call from the hospital at 12.14 am last Friday morning but did not receive a voicemail and no further efforts were made to reach out to her. Upon seeing the missed call two hours later, Ms Gorrie returned the call.

"They said he had a 'slip'. I asked what they meant, and they said he slipped over," she told NITV.

Upon reaching the hospital, the hospital staff informed her they had discovered her father in the bathroom but couldn't explain how he got there.

Ms Gorrie inquired with the staff regarding the installation of railings on her father's hospital bed.

"They said both of them were up. I asked how he had gotten over the rails, they told me he must have climbed over them," she told NITV.

"Due to the stroke, he couldn't move his legs. He has no mobility, he can't stand or walk," she said.

Ms Gorrie said she could not believe her father was able to independently climb over the railing and reach the bathroom, considering his lack of mobility after the stroke and his reliance on a walking stick even prior to his hospitalisation.

She also said his injuries did not align with the hospital's account of events.

"He has a black eye, a cut on his right eyebrow, egg-shaped lump on his forehead and bruising. He is complaining every time he moves his ribs are in pain," said Ms Gorrie.

"Their version doesn't align with dad's injuries and with his inability to move and stand, he needs assistance in every aspect, it doesn't make sense he slipped on his own.

"As a former cop, I did my investigation . . . I find it really unbelievable their version of events. I've told them I don't believe them. They aren't being honest about what happened.

"I spoke to the man in the same room as Dad, just a curtain divides them. He told me my father fell out of bed and that the railing wasn't up," she said.

Ms Gorrie said the witness told her Mr Gorrie fell out of bed and he knocked his head on the corner of the side table.

She said the patient informed her about her father's pleas for assistance, and that it took the hospital staff approximately six minutes to respond.

The attending doctor told Ms Gorrie they had requested a CT scan and x-rays for his ribs.

Ms Gorrie said while the CT scan was performed promptly, her father had to wait for 15 hours before receiving the x-rays for his injury.

Ms Gorrie told NITV her family have concerns as to whether the railings of their father's bed were put up on the night of his injury.

The hospital informed her that the railings had been installed on her father's bed, however, Ms Gorrie also noted instances where she and her siblings had witness nurses changing sheets and attending to their father without reattaching the railings afterwards.

"We've had to remind them to do it," she said.

"When I spoke to the nurse manager, she said that they don't put rails up in the hospitals anymore because it is a form or restraint. But dad presented as a stroke patient so they should have put it up," she said.

"I feel like it's negligence on their part . . . I understand that they're under a lot of pressure, nurses. They have a lot of patients to tend to."

During her discussion with the hospital management, Ms Gorrie explicitly expressed her plan to submit a formal complaint against the hospital. She indicated that she had been asked to postpone the complaint.

"They've told me to hold off until they speak to the nurses on duty, I am assuming they want to get their ducks in a row and their versions aligned," she said.

Mr Gorrie is a respected Elder and is a member of the Stolen Generation. He was born in Melbourne during the 1950s and was taken away from his family and raised at Lake Tyers Mission.

In the year 2005, he achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first Aboriginal individual to receive the Public Service Medal, recognising his unwavering dedication to the Aboriginal community.

Due to the incidents involving the hospital, Ms Gorrie and her family now harbour a profound sense of mistrust towards the institution and have genuine concerns regarding their father's well-being.

"My dad is a prominent and well-respected Elder in this state, everybody who knows him loves him," she said.

Ms Gorrie informed NITV that she is now organising the transfer of her father to another hospital. She has devised a schedule with her siblings to guarantee round-the-clock supervision for their father until the transfer is completed.

"I feel that because he is a Blak man, the proper care hasn't been provided to him. I've set up a roster so that all his kids, my siblings, are with him there at all times... I don't trust this hospital," she said.

"Any family should be able to have their loved one in care in a hospital and feel safe, and feel able to go home and rest."