A SNP MP was rushed to hospital in excruciating ache after struggling a severe fall in parliament.
Allan Dorans, MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, fractured his leg within the accident at Westminster yesterday afternoon.
The 66-year-old politician taken by ambulance to St Thomas Hospital in London and X-rays confirmed he had suffered a severe fracture of his femur.
Dorans, who has served his constituency since 2019, will endure surgical procedure in a number of days and keep in hospital for one week to recuperate.
Sharing an image from his hospital mattress, the previous South Ayrshire councillor mentioned he was in agony however morphine was serving to to ease the ache of the tumble.
He mentioned: "Not excellent news. Had a fall in Parliament this afternoon and brought to hospital by ambulance.
"X-rays have confirmed a severe fracture of my femur the place it joins my hip.
"Excruciating ache however morphine serving to a bit.
"Operation in a few day adopted by a couple of week of put up op restoration right here in St Thomas’s Hospital in London.
"My son Peter is on his means right here tonight so ought to be okay for something I might have."
It comes after the MP was admitted to Ayr Hospital in October final yr with a 'extreme and debilitating' bout of Covid-19.
He obtained therapy and expressed his gratitude to NHS employees who assisted his restoration.
In a press release on the time thanking the medics and his constituents for his or her properly needs, Dorans cited the 'severe results of covid' and mentioned his sickness "ought to function a reminder that Covid remains to be very a lot with us and nonetheless has the potential to do severe hurt".
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