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Courtney Stewart: Ambulance service sorry over wait for injured Partick Thistle player

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Courtney Stewart: Ambulance service sorry over wait for injured Partick Thistle player

After the match, Graham told BBC Scotland: “I can’t thank Rangers’ medical staff and the first aiders here enough, they’ve been brilliant with her.

“But I just don’t think we get that [wait for an ambulance] in the men’s game.”

League rules do not compel clubs to have an ambulance at games in Scotland.

Instead, the home club must make sure there is a qualified medical practitioner available.

The hosts also have to provide a minimum of two stretchers and four trained stretcher bearers.

Last season, former Spartans manager Debbi McCulloch called for a review of medical provision at SWPL games after Becky Galbraith received on-pitch treatment for 27 minutes before being taken to hospital with a neck injury.

“I don’t know what we can change,” Graham added before the ambulance had arrived on Sunday.

“Obviously, it comes down to finance.”

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