- 27 life or death patients sent to A&E by cab
- 281 seriously ill cases taxied to hospital
A CRIPPLING lack of ambulances has seen hundreds of desperately ill patients rushed to hospital by TAXI at a cost of £129,000.
One scandal-hit service ferried 27 critical condition patients by cab. Each was on a category 1 call - needing life-saving intervention or resuscitation.
A further 281 taxi rides were used for category 2 patients with conditions such as heart attacks, strokes, sepsis or burns.
The cases, from last April to November, were in the East of England - the country's worst-performing ambulance service.
Paramedic Glenn Carrington, Unison's regional chair, said: "These are patients who without medical help will die and they are being thrown in the back of a taxi.
"It is like something out of a dystopian movie, but that is how bad things have got. There's no slack in the system. It is broken."
This story is from the March 05, 2023 edition of The Sunday Mirror.
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