A seriously ill retired GP forced to wait outside her local hospital in the back of an ambulance had her life saved by her family – who drove her 300 miles to one in London instead.
Dr. Alison Durkin, 61, woke up with chest pains and called 999 (UK’s Emergency Services phone number) – but waited hours outside Royal Cornwall Hospital, located in the English county of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.
The hospital has declared an internal ‘critical incident’ due to ‘acute pressure’ on beds – with patients forced to wait outside in queues of over 30 ambulances.
