Man Rumoured To Have Once Held Valid First Aid Certificate Goes Into Competition With NHS
2017-01-23
An entrepreneurial Rotherham man has cashed in on the crisis in the health service by setting up a mobile emergency treatment clinic, parked in a lay-by near Rotherham District General Hospital on Moorgate Road.
Barry Ball from Bramley, who it’s rumoured once held a valid First Aid certificate in the 1980’s, is using an old four berth caravan as a makeshift Accident and Emergency facility and is charging patients £15-£25 for a whole range of treatments including wound dressing, bone setting and septic boil lancing. For a small additional fee, he will examine your piles.
Waiting times and conditions in A&E have meant that business has been brisk since Barry, who recently updated his skills by binge-watching a whole series of Casualty, set up the service last month.
“It’s going really well” he told us while carefully removing a Hoover accessory from a young mans anus “People would rather come in here than hang around for hours up at the hospital, particularly at night when A&E is full of popped up scrotes looking for a scrap. And parking in the lay-by is free. If it carries on like this, I’m thinking of upgrading and adding an awning for smokers, They haven’t got one of them at the hospital.”
Savvy Barry is no stranger to taking advantage of crisis-fuelled money making opportunities. Regular readers will recall his well-intentioned but ill-fated ‘Catcliffe By Water Gondolla Experience’ venture, set up during the 2007 floods, which was forced to close abruptly when a stray mongrel bit a hole in his dinghy.
