Premature twin girls die, mother in coma after paramedics locked out of tower block

[Northerner]

Premature twins have died and their mother is in a coma after paramedics were blocked from getting inside a tower block because the door was locked.

Jocelyn Bennett was 32 weeks into her pregnancy when she started suffering severe pains at around 5.30am last Wednesday and called emergency services from her home at Pleck House, Druids Heath in south Birmingham.

The family say the ambulance crews could not get an answer from the 13-floor tower block's intercom system and had to phone police at 6am, before the twin girls - christened Melody and Rose - were delivered in hospital by C-section.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...s-locked-out-of-tower-block-flat-9840513.html

 

[trophywench]

This is shocking, been in the local news for days.

They have said that no-one yet has been able to say why 'the steps the Council put in place to enable Emergency Services to get into the block' didn't work, OR even what type of thing they were.