MP’s emergency surgery after Westminster fall
Ayr MP Allan Dorans had to undergo emergency surgery last Wednesday morning after an horrific fall in parliament.
The 66-year-old SNP politician smashed the femur in his left leg after falling down steps at Westminster.
Mr Dorans, who won the Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock seat from the Scottish Conservatives during the 2019 UK General Election, was taken to St Thomas’ Hospital in “excruciating pain.”
An x-ray later confirmed a “complicated fracture” of his left femur, near the socket of his hip.
Speaking from his bedside, the MP said: “Whilst leaving a corridor in parliament into a courtyard, I had pushed the door open from the inside and there was a man coming up the three steps from the Courtyard into the corridor.
“I stopped and held the door open for him, looked over my shoulder to make sure he had the door, stepped down on to the steps but missed the middle one - and went crashing to the ground, landing heavily on my left thigh.
“I was taken by emergency ambulance to nearby St Thomas’ Hospital and given maximum doses allowed of morphine for the pain, which was excruciating. X-rays reveal a complicated fracture of my left femur, near the socket with my hip.”
Mr Dorans , an ex-metropolitan police detective in London, is expected to remain in hospital for the next week .
Before his fall, Mr Dorans was due to attend a briefing with Cancer Research UK - to receive information on the work of the organisation in Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock - then take part in a march from the Covid Memorial Wall on the South Bank to Downing Street and hand in a petition signed by 120,000 people, urging the UK Government to make the Covid Memorial Wall a permanent fixture.