"NEW ambulances capable of carrying patients weighing up to 50 stone will be introduced in Wales. [A stone = 14 pounds. 50 stone = 700 pounds]The £45,000 vehicles have been commissioned to cope with the nation’s growing obesity epidemic – the Welsh Ambulance Service says it has seen a 25% increase in obese patients.
The ambulances, which can carry up to four tonnes, will be equipped with extra-wide strengthened stretchers, which can each accommodate a 50-stone patient...
Six out of 10 men and 50% of women in Wales are already either overweight or obese, but the recent Foresight report has predicted that if current trends continue 60% of men and 50% of women will be obese by 2050 at a cost to the UK of £45bn a year.
Almost one in five 13-year-olds in Wales is classed as overweight or obese – higher than in England, Scotland and Ireland. And some 30 children in Wales have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, a condition which used to be associated only with the over-40s."
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