Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Siblings’ agony

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A WOMAN DIED in pain at home after waiting almost three hours for an ambulance from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) that never came.

Though ambulances were parked at their headquarters, none was able to respond because they did not have gurneys (stretchers) to put patients on.

And today, three siblings are in shock that after their mother spent more than 25 years of her working life at the QEH, nothing could be done for her when she needed help most.

Angela Boyce, a QEH employee, her brother Junior Nurse and sister Tracy Nurse related how they made more than 20 frantic calls to the QEH’s Emergency Ambulance Service last Wednesday morning to take their 66-year-old diabetic mother Lottielee Nurse to the hospital.

Please read the full story in today’s DAILY NATION, or in the eNATION edition.

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