A Liverpool dad whose family had to wait outside the hospital expecting news of his death has spoken of his outrage at news of Downing Street parties.
Michael Ellison had a 'Do Not Resuscitate' sign placed on his bed as he battled Covid-19 for weeks in 2020 and his wife and children were told he would not make it but were not allowed to see him.
Then 66, the dad-of-six had been taken to the Royal Liverpool Hospital in April 2020 and was quickly moved to Intensive Care as his condition deteriorated rapidly.
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Mr Ellison's situation was complicated by the fact he had been suffering from leukaemia at the time.
He was in hospital for seven weeks, where he said he would drop in and out of consciousness and saw countless people die around him.
He said doctors at the hospital described him as the 'sickest patient they had ever seen recover' from Covid-19.
The Everton man is furious at new revelations that Downing Street staff held a boozy party at the time he was fighting for his life in hospital - with Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly in attendance.
Mr Ellison, who is still battling long covid symptoms years on, said: "I was critically ill and the hospital put a Do Not Resuscitate sign on my bed, they really didn't think I was going to make it.
"My wife and kids were told I wouldn't make it through the night, but they couldn't come in and see me - they had to stand outside the hospital and wait for updates.
"I remember people dying around me every day, alone, with the curtains being put around them - to think that people in Downing Street were partying at that time makes me very angry.
"I was lying there dying, my family couldn't be with me - and they partied."
Mr Ellison said if the Prime Minister was in attendance at the party, he should resign immediately.
Mr Johnson has so far tried to avoid questions on reports that he and his wife Carrie were in attendance at the garden party on May 20, 2020.
He refused to come to Parliament on Tuesday to answer an urgent question from Labour on the situation today, instead sending Paymaster General Michael Ellis.
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