Jackie Baillie Scotland hospital Trade patient Universities Man UPS Тикеры Jackie Baillie Scotland

Scots stroke victim suffered second seizure after three hour wait outside Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth hospital

Reading now: 917
www.dailyrecord.co.uk

A suspected stroke victim had a second seizure after being left for three hours in an ambulance at a hospital.Martin Hughes’ family are demanding answers, saying the wait could have killed the pensioner.

Martin, 69, from Drymen, in Stirlingshire, suffered a stroke on Monday and he was rushed to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH).But when he arrived there was a queue of ambulances and it was three hours before he was taken into a “holding area”.

As the ambulance crew handed him over there, he had what appeared to be a second stroke.Brother-in-law Hugh Robertson said: “The wait not only endangered the life of a very ill man but tied up an ambulance crew for hours, which meant they were unable to attend anyone else.

He was not alone – there were a number of ambulances waiting with patients to be allowed into the building. It seems that this is normal now.“The ambulance crew had just put him in a holding area when he took another stroke.

Read more on dailyrecord.co.uk
The website covid-19.rehab is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA