FOR THE SECOND TIME IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS the North West Ambulance Service in England, a part of the National Health Service, has left an elderly woman writhing in pain for several hours before getting an ambulance to her.
Irene Bennett, age 79, fell on the pavement outside her home and injured her shoulder. The pain was so great that she could not move, nor could any of her neighbors move her due to the injury. She was laying on freezing pavement outside when her daughter arrived to see what was wrong.
Neighbors attempt to keep Irene Bennett warm as she
lays on the freezing pavement awaiting the ambulance.
Worried about the fragile old lady getting hypothermia, neighbors began laying blankets over her and doing what they could to keep her warm. Every time someone would place still another call to 9-9-9, they woud get the same response: She was “not considered a priority case.”
After three hours an ambulance finally arrived to provide care and transport her to the hospital, another National Health Service facility, where she had to wait until the next day before a doctor would see her. She had a fractured shoulder.
The North West Ambulance Service sent her the same stock letter of apology that they used earlier this month when Firegeezer reported HERE on a 70-yr.-old woman who was left lying on the floor with a broken hip for five hours until an ambulance arrived.
North West has a long history of this type of shoddy service. Read about this latest outrage in the Daily Mail HERE.
