Darrel Wilson, 54, waited nearly nine hours for an ambulance and said he would be dead if his wife didn’t drive him to the hospital herself.
A dad who waited nearly nine hours for an ambulance said he would be dead if his wife didn’t drive him to the hospital herself.
At 7:46am on October 9 last year, paramedics pulled up at the father of four’s front door some 81 minutes after Debbie had already driven him there. Darrel said: ‘The phone operator just kept telling us, the next ambulance in the area will be coming to you – but it never did.’Call handlers told the couple an ambulance would be with them ‘as soon as possible’ while Darrel was left writhing on the floor overnight.
‘At the time he was, and they asked, “What’s the ratio of pain between one and 10?” He said “20”. They said, “We’ll have an ambulance to you as soon as we can”.‘In the end, Debbie drove me,’ Darrel added, ‘and if she hadn’t have done it, I wouldn’t be here right now.’The wait proving too gruelling, Debbie drove Darrel at around 6am to Royal Stoke University Hospital.
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