A B.C. man is speaking out after he says his brother was left waiting seven hours overnight with a broken hip for an ambulance.
Bill, who asked not to use his last name because his brother wishes to remain anonymous, said the incident happened in Langley on Tuesday.
His 63-year-old brother, who suffers from multiple health issues including a past stroke and diabetes serious enough that he’d had his right leg amputated, called his daughter home due to excruciating pain in his hip, he said.
When efforts to treat the pain with over-the-counter medication failed, she called 911 around midnight.
“The pain wasn’t going away, it was getting worse,” he said.
“They said he wasn’t really a priority,” he said.
“Her frustration and anger level was right up there too, and the worry for her dad. That he was in excruciating pain and nothing was working, and her waiting and waiting and waiting.”
The ambulance eventually showed up around 7 a.m., and took Bill’s brother to Langley Memorial Hospital.
Upon admission he learned he had a broken hip, as well as a blockage in the artery behind his right knee.
