some1 in the EU should be hung.

[Mauser 98K]

THEIR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
EU rule: Ambulance crews
take break while man dies
Heart-attack victim forced to wait 20 minutes,
although emergency vehicles 5 minutes away

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Posted: January 6, 2007
5:00 p.m. Eastern



© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

When a 73-year-old Londoner collapsed at a betting shop on New Year's Eve afternoon, his luck had run out – thanks to European Union rules that required two nearby ambulance crews to be kept on their 30-minute breaks.

A paramedic arrived by rapid-response car in a matter of minutes to the shopping center where the unnamed senior was stricken and began caring for the man. Witnesses say he made desperate calls on his cell phone in an attempt to have an ambulance dispatched.

The London Ambulance Service, which has launched an investigation of the incident, confirmed that two crews were on a mandated break at a station five minutes away from the shopping center, but they could not be disturbed, the London Daily Mail reported.



Under rules mandated by the European Working Time Directive, adopted in December, ambulance crews working shifts between six and 10 hours long are allocated a rest break of 30 minutes and cannot be sent out on 999 calls – the UK equivalent to 911 emergencies in the U.S.

LAS dispatched an ambulance from a neighboring community, but it did not arrive for over 20 minutes after the original emergency phone call.

"We dispatched a rapid-response car, which arrived at the shopping center within eight minutes at 1:30 pm, the member of staff being able to start treatment immediately," a spokesman for LAS said. "An ambulance was sent at 1:32 pm after it became available from attending another incident and, according to our records, arrived at the shopping center at 1:41 pm and at the patient a few minutes later.

"The man stopped breathing shortly afterwards and efforts were made to resuscitate him both at the scene and on the way to North Middlesex Hospital, where he arrived at approximately 2:10 pm."

"It is disgusting," said eyewitness Sheldon Trevatt of Edmonton. "The man worked all his life paying his national insurance. If that ambulance had been there earlier I think his life would have been saved.”


is it me or is the EU oficials a bunch of dope smoking dumbasses who need to be kicked out.

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[Hellfighter]

man thats sick they should have more people on to cover when they go on their break time.

[Lakie]

i think the question should be why the rostered both crews with a lunch break at the same time, for a crew to have a undisturbed break is reasonable but they need to look at the way they roster breaks...

[Hellfighter]

mike i was thinking if they had one crew out on a ran already and the 2nd crew on a break? i would think they have more man power on a shifts to cover it.

seem they over look it or low on founds

anycase it cost a man life that needed not to have happen. who's next.

think it the main office need to get thier act together! so this do not look so baddly on their part or happen again on any shifts.

[-Tigger-]

theres not enough paramedics in the UK.. and with the amount of false/non emergency calls that is received.. it can take longer than it shold for a response, but the crew prob. didnt do anything illegal, but they should have responded.. break or no break