Disgusted by photographers

Last month I was visiting someone at Queen Mary Hospital.

As I left, an ambulance pulled up and the attendants brought someone out on a stretcher.

Photographers stepped up and snapped shots side by side with the attendants, who accepted the photographers' presence as they might fellow medical personnel. I was disgusted.

If the injured party had been a friend or family member of mine, the chances are strong that the photographers would shortly have been in need of a stretcher themselves.

I would like to add my voice to that of Jason Wordie's (letter, South China Morning Post, February 23) and the writer of the letter headlined, 'Ban press vultures' (Post, February 25) in expressing my loathing of this practice.

TOM WARDEN Fanling