The Portugal AVC association has defended a strategy for the rehabilitation of stroke survivors, an area that remains the “poor relative” of the health.
hospitals in england for more than an hour, waiting to unload patients. those figures are the highest since records began in 2010. 0ur reporter zoie 0 brien has been speaking to the wife of one stroke patient who couldn t get an ambulance because there was none available. recovering in hospital after suffering a stroke, gavin s family say they feel lucky he s alive. notjust because of his condition, but because on the day he fell ill, there were no available ambulances. instead, he spent an hour on two buses to get to ipswich hospital. he kept getting stared at because obviously he kept having the seizures on the bus. and we just wanted to blank everything out and get there. i tried to make him as comfortable as i possibly could. after being seen in the emergency department, gavin was told he could leave hospital on november the 16th, but during the night his condition rapidly declined. lauren called 999, but again, there was no ambulance available and no buses running. without money f
would have preferred it did not happen. i would have preferred that i could go to a space where i am invited and be treated as every other guest was treated. i would prefer that we kept the focus on the abuse against women and girls in these 16 days. so i, you know, i have thoughts, but i can t make this lady the focus within the 16 days, i have to keep, you know, the focus where it should be, and that is against violence against women and girls. ngozi fulani talking to mishal husain on the radio four today programme. as we ve been hearing this morning, as many as 10,000 ambulances a week are now getting stuck outside hospitals in england for more than an hour, waiting to unload patients. those figures are the highest since records began in 2010. 0ur reporter zoie 0 brien has been speaking to the wife of one stroke patient who couldn t get an ambulance because there were none available.