

'A national f****** hero': Social media erupts in praise for mystery purple-shirt wearing woman who heckled Steve Barclay 'for doing bugger all' about NHS ambulance crisisīoris Johnson insists Covid lockdown decisions were 'right', rebutting nemesis Rishi Sunak's claim that draconian actions 'screwed' Britain Why Covid is not over, even if worst of pandemic is: 2022 hits 'tragic milestone' of ONE MILLION virus deaths, World Health Organization says. It wasn't until 8pm that night that, via one of his neighbours, I heard he'd gone to hospital.' I'm his next of kin but no one notified me of his death. At just after 2am, paramedics found him dead. He wasn't told he should keep his door open, so the fire brigade had to break the door. The one sent to him had to come from 60 miles away. An ambulance was allocated to him at 12.30am, but that crew was diverted to another call. 'He knew all of us - his children and grandchildren - would have been asleep so didn't ring us. When asked if he felt as though an elastic band was pressing across his chest, he said it did. He said he thought he was having a heart attack, though he had no history of cardiac problems. Ava has listened to his emergency call made in May, when he sounded 'calm, not panicking'. One reader, Ava Sanderson, tries not to think about what her father James, 66, 'an avid golfer and a robust man', went through in his last hours at the Surrey flat where he lived by himself. And medical charities are now warning that heart and stroke patients could die unnecessarily or be left permanently disabled after suffering long delays in getting medical attention. Scores of harrowing replies revealed the devastating impact on patients and their loved ones.

After highlighting Britain's worsening ambulance crisis last week, The Mail on Sunday asked readers to get in touch with their experiences.
