The case was raised by Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP David Chadwick when discussing the long wait times patients in the county can face.
Mr Chadwick said one of his 82-year-old constituents was forced was forced to drive his wife, who had suffered from a stroke, from Rhayader to Hereford.
During the drive of over an hour and 15 minutes through winding roads his wife was “paralysed and vomiting without medical assistance”, he claimed.
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According to Mr Chadwick the resident was forced to make the trip himself after he had waited two hours for an ambulance, only to then be told there could be an additional wait of between four and seven hours.
“Residents across Powys and right across Wales are having to wait extraordinarily long for ambulances to arrive during their hour of need,” said Mr Chadwick.
“Most people I know in Powys have either experienced this themselves or know someone who has.
“It is frightening for local residents that a seven-hour wait for an ambulance is no longer considered an unusual case.
“None of this is the fault of our fantastic healthcare workers who are working extremely hard under challenging circumstances.”
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Mr Chadwick argued more should be done to address the crisis in social care.
“Hospital patients are not being discharged due to the lack of social care spaces available resulting in beds being blocked and ambulances queuing for hours outside of major local hospitals like Hereford,” he said.
Last month Care Forum Wales said the measures announced by Labour in the UK Government Budget could cause “a collapse in the social care system in Wales”, with a £150 million funding hole needing to be plugged as a result of the changes announced.
“Labour’s decision to increase the national insurance payments of social care providers only risks making the situation at our A&Es even worse,” added Mr Chadwick.
“If social care providers shut down as the sector is warning, there will be more blocked beds at hospitals and even more ambulances will be left queuing unable to attend their next call.”
The Welsh Ambulance Service have apologised for the families experience and said this was due to broader healthcare pressures.
Jeff Morris, the Welsh Ambulance Service’s Head of Service in Powys, said: “We were deeply sorry to hear about this family’s experience, and we sincerely apologise to them and all our patients who have experienced long waits, because it’s absolutely not the service we want to provide for the people of Wales.
“Poor ambulance response times are a symptom of much broader system-wide pressures, including hospital handover delays, which hamper our ability to respond to other 999 calls in the community.
“Coupled with the busy winter period and the rise in seasonal illnesses, our ambulance service is not always able to help people in the way we would like.
“This winter, we’re working with commissioners and Welsh Government to test a number of new approaches to improve patient safety and quality of care.
“This includes using the skills of our people differently and managing more patients closer to home to ensure our emergency ambulances are more readily available for those who need us most.”
