Stephen Bromhead … collapsed before being able to ask a question. Photo: Shane Chalker
NSW Nationals MP Stephen Bromhead leapt to his feet in question time today then collapsed in agony as a leg fracture apparently broke again.
Channel Nine political reporter Kevin Wilde tweeted that MPs could ‘‘hear the snap’’.
Fellow Nationals MP Leslie Williams, a former nurse, and the opposition health spokesman, Dr Andrew McDonald came to the injured MP’s aid.
The Myall Lakes MP was put in a wheelchair and wheeled out of the Legislative Assembly. An ambulance was called to parliament house.
A spokeswoman for the deputy premier Andrew Stoner said his fall was a result of a ”post-operative infection”.
Mr Bromhead was in a serious car accident before the state election, and had surgery on his right leg.
”Today as he rose to ask the Premier a question, it is likely he has suffered a pathologic fracture to his leg. He was taken by ambulance to hospital.”
”Mr Bromhead is in good spirits.”
– with AAP