| PATIENTS "AMBULANCE EXPERIENCES" READ-ON PLEASE? |
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| Hello Mick; You wont remember me but was out in support on your demo outside Bridlington hospital about eighteen months ago. Saw your article in the Gazette dated 23rd November 2004 and needed an ambulance myself recently. Bull and Sun pub in Baylegate near the Priory Church Bridlington 11.15 PM on 13th.October last. I had what, I thought it was heartburn or indigestion for an hour or two and suddenly felt extremely ill? Sue who works behind the bar saw immediately that it was a Heart Attack and called 999. My wife,who was with me,said later that Sues husband died of a heart attack and she knew the signs and said this over the phone saying it was urgent. The ambulance was there in under five minutes ,they got me stabilized and said that it would have to be Scarborough so off we went. They did the eighteen miles in twenty minutes with the siren going, my reckoning about 60mph. Nightmare journey though, bouncing about in the back even though strapped down. I kept saying "aren't we there yet" like a kid in the back of dads car I would have preferred treatment at Bridlington Hospital but that was not the fault of the ambulance-men and I think they did a great job. George Dickinson Reply by: Mick Pilling (chairman) Save/Support Bridlington Hospital Campaign Once again, we are told of the many un-necessary trips to Scarborough Hospital by patients, why? We have a perfectly good hospital in Bridlington with all the facilities to cope with such incidents; this un-necessary time wasting, valuable life saving time? taking patients some 20 miles to Scarborough must be seen as nothing less than ludicrous......... |
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