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Amy Duffy & Lynn Love

Glasgow great-gran's hospital hell after waiting hours for ambulance then delay to lifesaving surgery

A Scots great-gran who was left waiting for an ambulance for five hours endured further nightmares at a Glasgow hospital. Helen 'Ella' Nimmo, 89, waited hours in crippling pain after falling in her care home with a suspected broken hip.

After finally being taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital at around 1.30am on Wednesday, August 9, the great-gran of two was faced by a catalogue of alleged issues and delays, reports Glasgow Live.

Her daughter, Yvonne Bennett, told: "It was honestly such a traumatic experience. Nothing they were giving her was doing anything for her pain and she was eventually taken for an X-ray. Obviously they had to move her into different positions and I could hear her screaming and crying from the pain.

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