Stood in the freezing cold and speaking into a phone, Greater Manchester's ambulance boss delivers a desperate plea
Stood outside on a freezing cold night in December, a regional ambulance boss makes a desperate plea as he stares into the camera of a mobile phone.
In a sobering statement uploaded to the service's social media pages last night, Mr Grant said: "I'm Chris Grant, Medical Director for North West Ambulance Service, with an urgent message for the public. Tonight, across both our 111 and 999 services, we're seeing really significant demand. At 5pm on Monday , more than 600 patients were waiting for an ambulance across the North West, the service said. Another 100 emergency vehicles were parked outside of hospitals waiting to handover patients.
"Please be assured that we will get to you as soon as we can. The public can help us by only calling 999 for life-threatening emergencies.
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