The man, who had broken bones following a fall, was left without an ambulance that could help him
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The man, from Long Eaton in Derbyshire, fell on 27 December, breaking his wrist and thumb and his hip replacement, as well as wounding his head. "At 23:30 she still hadn't heard from the doctors. She rang again, they said they would get a doctor to call."Call operators said they would organise an ambulance."At 22:00 that night, a one-lady crewed ambulance turned up.
"She left because she couldn't get any back-up but she had put a priority call in for him to get an ambulance the next morning - which would be the Thursday morning - and he would definitely have an ambulance.""So my husband, myself, my son and his wife had to hunt for a wheelchair and we took him in by ourselves which we didn't want to because we didn't know if we would do any more damage," she said."He just felt that nobody was there to help him.
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