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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mustafa Javid Qadri

Great-grandmother with broken hip taken to hospital on gritter lid as she ‘was not eligible’ for ambulance

Dawn Hamilton / SWNS

The family of a great-grandmother who broke her hip were told she was not “was not eligible” for an ambulance so they took her to the hospital themselves - on a gritter lid in a white van.

Pamela Rolfe, 79, was walking her dog when she fell on 29 December and passersby helped keep her warm by putting a duvet over her.

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