Wheelchair MS pair are left stranded
23 February 2007
WHEELCHAIR users were left stranded at a Hornchurch hospital after a disabled cab service went to the namesake St George's Hospital - in Tooting, South London!

Two members of the Havering Multiple Sclerosis Society were left waiting for nearly an hour in the cold at the hospital in Suttons Lane, while a driver from the London Taxi Card Scheme - an under fire transport service for the disabled - waited outside another hospital over 20 miles away.

The woman MS sufferer had no choice but to clamber out of her wheelchair and get a lift home with a MS Society committee member - with her wheelchair squeezed on the backseat next to her!

Luckily, the man and his carer managed to use the society's minibus after calling the part-time driver out on a late-night emergency after being stranded on February 6.

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