This (unfortunately) is more from my daughter's day. Some poor fella tipped over in front of her, she rang an ambulance with as much information as she could muster (male, probably in his 80s, seems concussed but can speak) and was told the ambulance would take up to 2 hours.
5 minutes later some proper sad case rocks up and says 'Trouble here is he's the wrong colour'. When questioned what he was on about, he said that the ambulance would have turned up in 15 minutes if he'd been black or brown (his words, not my daughter's).
God alone knows how an emergency call answerer can tell what colour someone is from 'male, probably in his 80s, seems concussed but can speak'.
I fully expect this moron would of course refuse to be seen by an overseas NHS worker if he was in an accident
5 minutes later some proper sad case rocks up and says 'Trouble here is he's the wrong colour'. When questioned what he was on about, he said that the ambulance would have turned up in 15 minutes if he'd been black or brown (his words, not my daughter's).
God alone knows how an emergency call answerer can tell what colour someone is from 'male, probably in his 80s, seems concussed but can speak'.
I fully expect this moron would of course refuse to be seen by an overseas NHS worker if he was in an accident
