A mother was left to watch the colour drain from her son's face while they were stuck in traffic on the way to hospital after a 999 call handler told her an ambulance would be at least eight hours. Georgia Faith Johnson was making the solo trip to the University Hospital of Wales after being told to get her son Tobias Benjamin to accident and emergency immediately after he started experiencing a seizure.
The mother and son had been at home for twenty minutes on Monday evening when Benjamin's eyes started to roll to the back of his head. He became completely unresponsive with his little body jerking. Mum Georgia who was home alone with Benjamin at the time immediately called 999 for help.
The 23-year-old support worker from Rumney, Cardiff, said that despite the desperation of the situation, she was told there was an eight hour wait for an ambulance and was advised to get him to the hospital herself as soon as she could. Within five minutes of starting the short journey to the hospital, Georgia said she looked back at her son in his car seat and saw "any mum's worst nightmare."
