William Clark, 77, hit out over the treatment of his wife, 71, and said patients will die if it continues, while some patients have to wait in the back of ambulances for hours.
Hospital patients are having to wait in the back of ambulances for hours as the closure of extra beds has caused a build-up at the front door.
The woman, a nurse who retired at 71, asked not to be named but her furious husband, William Clark, 77, hit out: “Lives will be lost if this is allowed to continue." "She called an ambulance at 2.30pm. It arrived at 2.30am. When she got to hospital there were ambulances queued up with patients in the back but there were no beds.
Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community hereand get the latest news sent straight to your messages. NHS Ayrshire & Arran said it had an “ongoing approach to reducing additional beds that were opened to provide surge capacity and ensure compliance with pandemic guidance for infection control measures during the pandemic”.
“Ambulance turnaround times continue to be a significant challenge and this does restrict the ability of the Scottish Ambulance Service to get crews back out responding to patients.
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