Actor’s tearful thanks to NHS as dad’s hand saved after saw accident

HOLLYWOOD actor Luke Evans has shared a tearful love letter to the NHS after medics saved his dad’s hand following a “terrible accident”.

The Beauty and the Beast star shared a video on Facebook after his dad needed surgery after cutting his hand open with a circular saw.

The Pontypool-born actor thanked the NHS and staff at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital in the tearful clip.

Evans said in the Facebook video that his dad needed treatment after the accident on Friday.

“Three days ago my dad had an accident in his garden, chopping, slicing wood on a circular saw. It was very bad, he sliced his hand open. Was a terrible accident,” he said.

“He almost lost his fingers. We took him to one of our local hospitals in Swansea, the Morriston hospital and he was taken straight into surgery which took five hours of micro-surgery by one of the most incredible people I’ve ever met. What he did to my dad’s hand is extraordinary. From the second we got there we were looked after by very kind people.

The star added: “Nurses, carers, porters, surgeons, anaesthetists. All of which had already worked a very, very long day when we arrived. And at 7pm the surgeon, his name was Thomas, decided he would carry on and operate on my dad – although he knew it would probably take him at least five hours to reconstruct my dad’s fingers.

“I just wanted to say how grateful I am to have a health service.

“It’s just there for us.”