Exclusive: Elderly fall victims having to wait six hours for ambulances dealing with Covid patients
He told The Telegraph: “We are seeing elderly people who have fallen waiting five or six hours for an ambulance simply because there aren’t any available and the higher grade respiratory problems and chest problems get a higher priority.” The crisis is particularly acute in London where the capital’s busiest facility, the Royal London Hospital, has only one nurse for every three Covid patients being treated in intensive care, leaked correspondence shows. The facility in east London has reached “disaster medicine mode” and is no longer able to provide adequate critical care, accord...
Source: telegraph.co.uk
