Patients in ambulance wait ordeals amid hospital crisis
Daily Record|November 30, 2024
PATIENTS have told how they were left trapped in ambulances for hours, waiting to get into A&E, after NHS Grampian declared a critical incident.
GEMMA RYDER

The health board has been forced to send emergency patients outside the region by ambulance due to "extreme pressure" on Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

Health chiefs alerted the public to the major incident on Thursday night.

One woman shared how she endured a five-hour wait in an ambulance to get into A&E at the infirmary a few weeks ago.

This story is from the November 30, 2024 edition of Daily Record.

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