It’s time to get a grip on the ambulance problem

I AM writing concerning the incident when a 92-year-old man with a fractured hip spent 20 hours on a kitchen floor waiting for an ambulance.

This is no way a reflection on the ambulance service, who I know do a difficult and demanding job, but more a reflection on the Welsh Government.

I appreciate Covid hasn’t exactly helped matters, but Covid cannot be blamed in this instance. Lack of ambulances and lengthy waiting times have been going on for years. I myself on occasions when I have needed an ambulance for relatives who have been taken seriously ill (stroke/cancer and an aneurysm) no ambulance has ever been available, and it was only due to our using our own vehicle to get them to hospital, we managed to literally save their lives, such was the emergency, and this was 20 years ago, and from what I see and hear nothing has changed.

The Welsh Government needs to grasp the nettle and sort this out now. They wanted to take charge of issues in Wales, well Mark Drakeford, enough rhetoric, time to act and do the job you’re paid for.

Mrs DE Davies Whitchurch, Cardiff how could they understand being on a pavement or kitchen floor for hours on end frightened with a loss of their dignity? It’s about time the powers that be stopped saying sorry or lessons will be learned and took advice on how to make our NHS Wales the best from the front line workers who actually know what’s what, not someone on a salary most people can only dream about who can only say sorry. The people of Wales deserve better and the hospital and ambulance staff shouldn’t have to work in the conditions that they do. Catherine Jones

Dinas Powys

Lack of ambulances and lengthy waiting times have been going on for years

Mrs DE Davies Cardiff