A frail aged lady was left mendacity on the ground wrapped in blankets for hours whereas her household desperately referred to as for an ambulance.
The 97-year-old, who lives in Brixham in Devon, summoned an ambulance at 6.50am yesterday when she fell utilizing a pendant alarm round her neck.
However paramedics nor her GP had been unable to achieve her for eight hours and quarter-hour.
Regardless of her household saying their relative was ‘in agony’, they had been apparently instructed nothing may very well be completed ‘until affected person nears dying’, because of the strain the NHS is underneath.
The lady’s son-in-law instructed reporters at 2.45pm: ‘Ambulance has now been referred to as thrice. GP contacted twice – nothing anybody can do.
‘GP house name unavailable. Ambulance busy due to this fact until affected person nears dying nothing will be completed in the interim.
‘In the meantime my mother-in-law stays on the ground in agony.’
He despatched images – which have been blurred to guard the affected person’s anonymity – displaying the lady mendacity on the ground whereas her daughter waited along with her.
A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service confirmed that an ambulance arrived at 3pm.
They mentioned in an announcement: ‘We’re sorry that, because of the well being and social care system being underneath extreme strain, some sufferers are having to attend longer for an ambulance.
‘One of many causes for that is because of the size of time it’s taking us handy over sufferers into busy hospitals.
‘We're working carefully with NHS companions to deal with these delays, so our crews can get again out on the street for different sufferers.
‘Nevertheless, even with the extra sources we're making accessible, the variety of ambulances at present ready for extended intervals of time at emergency departments inevitably impacts on our means to answer sufferers.’
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