Editor,

The story in last week’s Cambrian News (Meirionnydd edition, 7 November) about Fairbourne pensioner Peter Connelly really tugs at your heart strings.

This poor man had to wait eight hours, which is a full day, waiting outside to boot, to see a doctor.

This really is not acceptable in the 21st century.

There needs to be a way that patients are identified as being more urgent in preference to others. Let the paramedics give red cards to identify the urgency of the patients coming in, overriding others already there. This is a simple measure which would save countless lives.

The life of this man could have been perhaps saved if some way patients are vetted in order of the urgency, not because they have waited the longest.

No amount of apology can make up for seeing your loved one suffer in this avoidable tragedy.

Jean Miles, Harlech.

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