PENSIONER Helen Cullen from Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, had been waiting seven weeks for a hip replacement when a nurse from Gartnavel phoned her to say the procedure could not go ahead due to "problems in theatre".
Her husband John, 90, took the call on a Saturday afternoon two weeks ago – two days before Helen, 85, was due to go into hospital.
Mr Cullen, a retired engineer, said: "I suspected what the problem was but I didn't know until I read it in the paper.
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