Article 59WV5 Man with terrible burns waited 78 minutes for ambulance in Wales

Man with terrible burns waited 78 minutes for ambulance in Wales

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Steven Morris
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Exclusive: report shows 23 ambulances were being used as waiting rooms' while man lay in agony

A man with terrible burns who waited an hour and 18 minutes for paramedics to reach him felt he was left to die" after it emerged that more than 20 ambulances were being used as waiting rooms" in local hospital car parks as he lay in agony.

Company director Chris Williams-Ellis, 41, suffered 45% burns to his body in the blaze at his home in Denbighshire, north Wales, in September and remains very ill in hospital.

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