Distraught families told us they had to wait 15 hours for an ambulance. His cancer-stricken father lay shivering in a makeshift tent on a rain-soaked concrete floor.
His David Wakeley, 87, a retired welder, hasprostate cancerand was hospitalized after collapsing at his Cornwall home Monday night. I am fighting for my life.
Tonight, his shocked family demanded answers and blamed the government.
His 64-year-old son-in-law, Trevor Crane, told The Mirror:
"As a family we know the staff at theNHS are great and doing their best, but we have to ask why this continues.
"No one seems to care, no one seems to fix it."
Living in the Queen's Village in India, he used a garden goal to cover the OAP. , was forced to wait for hours on the cold concrete floor of his garden, under a makeshift shelter.
He had broken seven of his ribs, broken his pelvis in two places, grazed his head, and had a severe cut to his arm. The first call to
999 was made at 7:34 pm Monday night, but the ambulance did not show up until 11 am Tuesday morning, taking a total of 15 hours and 24 minutes. .
A frightened David's family was forced to improvise after a call handler insisted that the father could not be moved in case he made the situation worse.
There, his son Phil Wakeley, 58, took control and, along with his sister Karen, 61, and some kind neighbors, sent the elderly father to the house for one night. I set about the tough task of keeping it alive.
Phil said: "I cannot vouch for an 87-year-old man waiting so long on a cold concrete floor.
"I am going step by step, Father. and by focusing on what he needs, I kept thinking that if he was young this would be bad enough, but here we are talking about old A weak man, one who feels cold.
"It was very difficult to deal with, but I did the best I could with what was available. It was terrible."
Phil initially thought the delay might be just a few hours, but it soon became apparent that help would not come, so he had to do whatever he could to keep David comfortable. I explained that it didn't.
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Adam Gerrard / Daily Mirror)Obviously he was in so much pain that he has to do it in pieces.
"We kept ringing the phone to find out when the ambulance would come, but it was always put off.
"The weather It was fine but it was going to rain so I had to adapt as best I could to get the goalposts of the neighborhood football I found a tarpaulin I put a sheet in the garage and put it I pulled over the goal and built a little tent.
"But it wasn't enough for the rain, so I had to find three umbrellas just to make sure he was dry."
"At one stage he was in so much pain that I had to massage his back.
"He has prostate cancer. Because of this, he had to wear a bag containing a catheter, which he had to empty all night long in an effort to keep his spirits up. He has cancer so he feels quite cold, but recently we gave him a warm blanket and I am very grateful, the temperature has dropped sharply.
"We were just waiting. We were hoping that an ambulance would come soon so that this man could receive proper treatment."
Phil and his sister Karen were nursing all night by their poor father. I insisted on my 12-year-old mother Marlene to go to bed, but as their ordeal lasted for hours, she was too upset to wink to sleep.
The two now spend as much time as possible at his father's bedside in Cornwall at the Royal of Trelisk, "hoping and praying" that he will get over it.
But they do not want other families to go through what they have done and demand that the grim situation be resolved immediately.
In May the inspector said that the number of ambulances waiting outside the Royal Cornwall Hospital was "a big problem.
A month later, the newly formed Kate Shields, CEO of the Integrated Health Care System (ICS), confirmed she has taken on a new role to ensure such queues never happen again. and said: "With pudding".
she said.
"The aim of the ICS is for health services and local authorities to work together and speak with her one voice in Cornwall for the benefit of patients."
She said: added like "Once you're older, you'll know where you want to be cared for. They'll take care of you at home, not in the hospital."
The Southwest isn't the only one struggling to cope with the Many commentators have described the social care crisis caused by the backlog of coronavirus-related issues and her decade-long unresolved issues. Tory-led austerity.
In response to the terrible wait times David and his family had to endure, Keep Our NHS Public Co-Chair Dr John Puntis said: A basic agreement with the public to treat the sickest in a timely manner has been broken.
"After 12 years of increasing demand, reflected in a relative decline in funding, Truss and Snack have lifted their heads from the sands to address the urgent crisis in both health and social services.
I am haunted by their horrific experience and want answers, but I don't think it is as simple as blaming medical personnel.
He said: "I cannot criticize the NHS. I think they are doing a great job. The paramedics who ended up here were top notch.
" But it is clear that there is a big problem with the whole system, there is too much going on in Cornwall and elsewhere right now and it needs to be sorted out.
"My mother told me yesterday When I visited a hospital in
``We are still in pain and upset about what happened. I am still very upset about what happened to my dad and hope he gets over it.
"We are a very close family and I love my father very much. We have come together as a team to help him in any way we can when he needs us."
"All we can do is focus on Dad and make sure he succeeds.
"We are now focused on Dad. He's been on a lot of pain meds, it's really the waiting game.
"We hope he gets over it and makes a full recovery. I am just hoping and praying at this point, but I understand that this is not going to be a quick fix, and sitting on the floor for 15 hours is not going to fix it. Trevor, who once had a nine-hour wait for an ambulance with a blood infection, argued that the government must do more to ease the social security crisis.
he said.
Address this and provide far more nursing homes and care facilities so that if someone needs to come, it won't be a problem.
"All we can do now is focus on David and wish him well." person said:
"The reasons for this are complex and include high demand for primary and secondary care, mental health services, and adult social care.
"Our team As we continue to work together to support those who need our care, the emergency department and 999 services available to those with urgent and life-threatening needs.”