Attila Brisco | It’s gone completely crazy,” said Ben Schischa, a paramedic with eight years’ experience, who works in and around London and has been on the front lines of the pandemic since March.
Schischa, 39, said emergency calls from people confirmed or suspected to have Covid-19 have “exploded exponentially” compared to even a week or two ago.
Schischa said he has seen patients wait in ambulances for hours until the hospital had enough space for them. One patient he picked up had waited six hours outside a hospital the previous day, he said.