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A troubled southern Ontario hospital was in damage-control mode Wednesday after an elderly woman who broke her leg falling in the entrance area of the facility was told to call an ambulance for help.

The incident, which has made international headlines, drew howls of outrage from provincial politicians.

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak called it "outrageous" the 82-year-old woman would be treated that way.

"That a senior citizen would be left in a hallway at a hospital, while they said paramedics had to be summoned from outside the jurisdiction for half an hour?" Hudak fumed.

"We're in ... Ontario. This is the way you're going to treat a senior citizen? It's wrong."

Doreen Wallace's family says they were told an ambulance would have to be called after she broke her hip and cut her arm when she fell inside the doors of the Greater Niagara General Hospital earlier this month.

An ambulance was called, but by the time it arrived half an hour later, a passing surgeon had given her care.

Source: Castanet.net