Injured man waits 3 hours on ground in hospital parking lot for medical help – Halifax [Video]

Questions are being raised about why a 68-year-old cancer patient who fell outside a Halifax hospital had to wait nearly three hours for an ambulance — on the ground in between two parked cars.

The incident happened Monday outside the Victoria General site of the QEII and was all witnessed by Ashley Foster, who was visiting the hospital at the time.

The man had just left an appointment and was getting into his car, when he accidentally fell.

“All of a sudden he just went down and smashed his face,” Foster said, adding that there was a lot of blood and that the man was clearly very injured.

“I ran as fast as I could in the hospital to go get somebody. But all they could do was call an ambulance for him.”

Foster said she was shocked the hospital couldn’t do more for the man, who was injured mere …