In Sweden, ambulance denied because woman was 'still talking'A woman from northern Sweden died after four calls placed over a four day period requesting to have an ambulance sent to her home in Timrå were ignored."She was having trouble breathing. She was instructed to call the healthcare information hotline and there they thought she sounded irritated," the young woman's mother told the local Sundsvalls Tidningen.
Following her daughter's death, the mother has had the transcripts of her daughter's conversations with emergency service operator SOS Alarm read to her.
The mother told the newspaper that healthcare representatives have since told her that her daughter's first call for an ambulance was denied because she "was still communicating verbally"."That's totally insane. If you can't communicate verbally, you can't call for an ambulance anyway," another close relative told the newspaper.
During the woman's first call, she complained that she had had a fever, chills, and aches for an entire week.
By the third call, she had a friend on hand in hopes of convincing emergency call operators to send an ambulance so she could get to hospital.
Her final call for an ambulance came at 1am on January 27th. A few hours later, she was dead.