{"id":21910,"date":"2023-01-06T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/06\/nhs-wales-i-had-to-carry-my-grandfather-into-hospital\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T21:30:05","slug":"nhs-wales-i-had-to-carry-my-grandfather-into-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=21910","title":{"rendered":"NHS Wales: &#8216;I had to carry my grandfather into hospital&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A man was forced to carry his grandfather into hospital due to a chronic ambulance shortage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Steve Parsons&#8217;s grandfather collapsed at his home in Monmouthshire but was advised to take him to hospital himself as no ambulances were available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">On their way to the Grange Hospital in Torfaen, the 83-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Fortunately a passing nurse helped save his life with CPR however his family said they were traumatised by the experience. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;Something needs to change,&#8221; said Mr Parsons, 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;No-one wants to be in a place where they are carrying a loved one across a car park yelling for help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-64169510?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A man was forced to carry his grandfather into hospital due to a chronic ambulance shortage. Steve Parsons&#8217;s grandfather collapsed at his home in Monmouthshire but was advised to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}