Just Stop Oil eco-loons block ambulance on ‘life or death emergency’ with slow walk
JUST Stop Oil eco-loons blocked an ambulance on a “life or death emergency” with a slow walk yesterday.
A London Ambulance Service vehicle was stranded for seven minutes attempting to cross Waterloo Bridge to reach St. Thomas’ Hospital in central London, after members of the protest mob staged another blockade.
Eventually the vehicle’s driver gave up and took the patient to another hospital.
Only minutes earlier the driver of another blue lights transporter, from nearby Guy’s Hospital, was reduced to walking speed by JSO – despite responding to a “life and death emergency”.
The motor’s driver, from the NHS trust’s extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) retrieval team, told The Daily Telegraph: “I am responding to a life-and-death emergency.
“I am going to pick up a team from Guy’s hospital to save someone’s life at another hospital but can’t get through.”
ECMO is a temporary life support system for people whose lungs have stopped working properly.
Only five hospitals in the country, including Guy’s Hospital, can provide the critical treatment.
A spokesman for the London Ambulance Service warned “delays can cost lives”.
Scotland Yard said officers had arrested around 40 activists by 10am.
Just Stop Oil attempted to claim it was police officers, not protestors, who had blocked the ambulance.
The woke climate cabal claimed protestors had been “dragged and forced to the ground as they were handcuffed”.