Shocking new figures reveal patients in Scotland are being forced to wait up to 48 hours for ambulances, with one near Edinburgh left waiting for two days as their condition deteriorated. The Scottish Conservatives have called the delays 'unacceptable' and blamed the SNP government for failing to address the crisis.
Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sportA patient was forced to wait two days for an ambulance in a ‘terrifying’ case that lays bare Scotland ’s deepening 999 crisis.
He added: ‘It is disgraceful that patients, including some fighting for their lives, are waiting so long for an ambulance to arrive. But Health Secretary Neil Gray still doesn’t have a plan to fix it and, unless and until he addresses delayed discharge in hospitals, he can never hope to do so. A purple category patient - those whose lives are deemed most at risk - in Glasgow was forced to wait well over four hours before an ambulance arrived in February this year. Another patient in Grampian waited 1 hour and 37 minutes in April.
Earlier this year, it was revealed a pensioner was left waiting in the middle of a road for three hours after a fall - as more than a dozen ambulances queued outside a busy A&E department.Advertisement Eddie Terry, 73, whose lower legs were amputated, fell out of his electric wheelchair when it hit a kerb, leaving him stranded until help arrived.
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