When ambulances turned out to attend to 36-year-old Aresti Vassiliou in his time of need, it took more than an hour for paramedics to get him out of the 1960s house he had grown up in.
The narrow hallway would not fit a stretcher and his large stature made it difficult to manoeuvre him through the old home.
"Aresti got so upset, really distressed," his sister, Catherine Vasilliou, said.