ADDING TO THE LONG LIST OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE FAILURES IN THE UK, it was disclosed yesterday that a 70-yr.-old woman who had a broken hip was left lying on the floor for five hours waiting for an emergency ambulance to arrive.
Jean Lloyd’s husband David started dialling 9-9-9 at 11 am last Wednesday and was repeatedly told that the North West Ambulance Service was too busy to respond right away.
The St. Helen’s Reporter tells in the STORY:
Her husband David, 73, said: “It was a total nightmare – the worst day of my life. My wife was in terrible agony for hours before the paramedics finally arrived. All I could do was wait anxiously and hold her hand. There was no way we could have moved her. She was shaking like a leaf and could have died of shock.”
Mr Lloyd added: “If the ambulance had turned up earlier it might not have been so serious. Even the ambulance driver was shocked at how long we had been waiting. We were expecting them within an hour.
Officials for the North West Ambulance Service, a chronic violator of reasonable response times, issued their stock apology letter #37: “Unfortunately, this call came at a time when we were responding to a high volume of more serious and immediately life-threatening incidents. We would like to apologise to the patient and her family for the delay.”
Read the entire article HERE.
Firegeezer notes: Apparently, some form of mutual-aid response plan is unheard of in that part of the country. They could have dispatched an ambulance from Belgium and had help there in less than five hours. Notice, too, that the people are so inured to this level of service that the husband was allowing for an hour to pass until help arrived.
Recent Comments