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A fed-up student paramedic who filmed a queue of 22 ambulances has said they were stuck outside the hospital for six hours.
The frustrated medic said that they were at the back of the monster queue and that they had not moved forward in over 6 hours at the Torbay Hospital in Devon.
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust apologised for the delays and said they were due to the hospital being under 'sustained pressure' for several months as a result of the pandemic.
The medic at Torbay Hospital in Devon told DevonLive: 'Currently at the back of a 22 ambulance queue. No movement in 6 hours. Staff are broken, the hospital is full. This is not sustainable.
'Patients are being affected and so are staff. The NHS in south Devon just broke. There was time to fix this, I don't think so anymore.'
Ian Currie, medical director at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, told The Sun: 'Like many
