Ayr MP Allan Dorans will undergo emergency surgery this morning after an horrific fall in parliament.
The 66-year-old SNP politician smashed the femur in his left leg after falling down steps at Westminster.
Mr Dorans, who won the Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock seat from the Scottish Conservatives during the 2019 UK General Election, was taken to St Thomas’ Hospital in “excruciating pain.”
An x-ray later confirmed a “complicated fracture” of his left femur, near to the socket of his hip.
Speaking from his bedside, the MP re-lived yesterday's ordeal and told Ayrshire Live: “Whilst leaving a corridor in parliament into a courtyard, I had pushed the door open from the inside and there was a man coming up the three steps from the Courtyard into the corridor.
“I stopped and held the door open for him, looked over my shoulder to make sure he had the door, stepped down on to the steps but missed the middle one – and went crashing to the ground, landing heavily on my left thigh.
“I was taken by emergency ambulance to nearby St Thomas’ Hospital and given maximum doses allowed of morphine for the pain, which was excruciating.
“X-rays reveal a complicated fracture of my left femur, near the socket with my hip.”
Mr Dorans is expected to remain in hospital for the next week to recover.
Before his fall, Mr Dorans was due to attend a briefing with Cancer Research UK – to receive information on the work of the organisation in Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock – then take part in a march from the Covid Memorial Wall on the South Bank to Downing Street and hand in a petition signed by 120,000 people, urging the UK Government to make the Covid Memorial Wall a permanent fixture.
Understandably, Mr Dorans was unable to attend either event.
Messages of support for the Ayrshire MP have already come in.
Carol Dew said on Facebook: “So sorry to hear this, Allan! I hope you have a speedy and uncomplicated recovery.”
Ayr West SNP said: “Very sorry to hear this Allan. Wishing you a quick and complete recovery.”
And Ian Leslie added: “So sorry Allan, I’m sure you will be very well looked after in such a well known hospital.”
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