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Badly injured man angry over 2-hour wait for ambulance

The Australian had bleeding in his brain, a fractured neck, broken ribs, a fractured eye socket and a broken nose.

AUSTRALIA — Michael McNamara cannot remember much about his almost two-hour wait for an ambulance.

After being allegedly assaulted by a group of men at his Lakes Entrance house on the afternoon of March 15, his 24-year-old son picked him up from the ground and carried him to the couch. He had bleeding in his brain, a fractured neck, broken ribs, a fractured eye socket and a broken nose.

''We rang the ambos and it was about two hours before they rocked up,’' his son says.

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