A 77 -year -old woman died during the blackout with a lack of oxygen after the fan who was on 24 hours a day was without battery. INEM took 36 minutes to arrive.
The Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, asked the General Inspection of Health Activities (Igas) to open an inspection to the case of a woman who was ventilated, and who died due to the blackout of this Monday. The information was confirmed to the newspaper Público by a source of the ministry, and
The victim was 77 years old and was at home in Cacém, Sintra, where he was connected all day to a mechanical fan, that helped her breathe. When the light was below, the device was out of battery, and the son called the National Institute of Emergency Medical (INEM), which will take 36 minutes to arrive at the scene, due to traffic, according to INEM.
Due to lack of communications, the family says that INEM employees “looked like silly cockroaches,” and believes that the victim’s death, for lack of oxygen, was caused by blackout. “When I called INEM, the battery was 50%,” said son, António Casimiro. “They said they came, it took 40 minutes. When they arrived, my mother was dead looking at me“He said to.
“My mother began to say, ‘I don’t call it, I don’t call it anymore.’ It was my evil. I had to call. If there was no blackout, my mother was alivethese.
The president of the Union of Prehospital Emergency Technicians, Rui Lázaro, quoted by, asks for more means for INEM. “36 minutes for a serious medical emergency, in clear life risk, is excessive Under any circumstances, it is not acceptable in a developed country and one of the large cities of the country. ”
