Ambulance Service, also said military emergency drivers and logistics staff could become available. Patients are facing massive delays following a surge in calls to 999 handlers and ambulances stacking up outside A+E departments while they wait to transfer the sick.The Daily Record has been at the forefront of exposing the problems in the emergency service.
We told of how 86 year old Lilian Briggs was lying in agony on a hard floor for almost eight hours as she waited for an ambulance.
At Holyrood this week, Nicola Surgeon issued an unreserved apology for the shambles and made a request for military support.
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