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.
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