Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A diabetic woman died in the back of an ambulance after its lift broke down while outside a hospital - trapping her inside.
Sophia Bhanji was taken to Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north-west London, in the early hours of Wednesday morning with symptoms of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar.
But when she arrived at the accident and emergency unit, the tail lift of the ambulance she was travelling in stopped working.
The fault meant paramedics were unable to move the trolley bed she was being treated on inside the hospital.
A number of doctors from the hospital worked for almost an hour in the back of the vehicle to resuscitate Miss Bhanji when she went into cardiac arrest, but they were unable to save her.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-ambulance-lift-broke-not-moved-hospital.html
Sophia Bhanji was taken to Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north-west London, in the early hours of Wednesday morning with symptoms of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar.
But when she arrived at the accident and emergency unit, the tail lift of the ambulance she was travelling in stopped working.
The fault meant paramedics were unable to move the trolley bed she was being treated on inside the hospital.
A number of doctors from the hospital worked for almost an hour in the back of the vehicle to resuscitate Miss Bhanji when she went into cardiac arrest, but they were unable to save her.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-ambulance-lift-broke-not-moved-hospital.html