A grandmother was forced to lie on a runway and wait 13 hours for an ambulance after suffering a fall. 83-year-old Brenda Hardy had to endure the "inhumane" wait for an ambulance after falling and breaking her hip on Newquay Airport's runway last month.
CornwallLive reports that the pensioner's granddaughter Emma Hardy had travelled from Swansea to fly to Alicante for a holiday with her nan, who lives in Goonhavern. As they were about to board the plane, she said Brenda fainted and collapsed on the Newquay Airport runway, breaking her hip.
Emma said it took 13 hours for an ambulance to arrive for her grandmother who was forced to wait in a succession of ambulances for a further 21 hours when she eventually arrived at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. Emma described the wait as "inhumane".
