The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Murcia has ordered the regional health service to pay out 73,925 euros in compensation for a man who died at home after waiting two hours for an ambulance.

They have to pay this sum, plus interest, to the children of the deceased, who had passed away in Mazarrón in September 2020.

It all began in the morning of the 21st of September that year when the 52-year-old father; a man suffering from several pathologies such as hepatitis, COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), diabetes and obesity, began to feel ill and was having difficulty breathing. The family made the first call to 112 at 12.31h.

However, the ambulance did not arrive until 14.20h. In the meantime the family had made five other calls, requesting assistance, as he was getting worse and was hardly breathing. Their last call was at 14.02h to say that their father no longer had a pulse and wasn’t responding to stimulus.

They had also made two calls to the medical centre in Mazarrón asking for an ambulance or a doctor to come round but were told that they had to wait for the ambulance which was coming from Cartagena. That’s a distance of just under 38.6 kilometres and takes 31 minutes by car using the AP-7.

When the ambulance did arrive, 110 minutes after the first call for assistance, they found the man in cardiorespiratory arrest but using CPR they at first managed to revive him, only for him to finally die in the ICU of Hospital General Universitario Santa Lucía in Cartagena at 17:34h that same day.

(News: Mazarron, Murcia)

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