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.<br />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.<br />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.
