Vet dies at VA hospital waiting for an ambulance – IOTW Report

Vet dies at VA hospital waiting for an ambulance

This Ain’t Hell

ABC News reports that at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in Albuquerque a veteran collapsed in the cafeteria and died while he waited a half-hour for an ambulance to take him the five-hundred yards to the Emergency Room;

Kirtland Air Force Medical Group personnel performed CPR until the ambulance arrived, VA spokeswoman Sonja Brown said.

Staff followed policy in calling 911 when the man collapsed on Monday, she said. “Our policy is under expedited review,” Brown said.

That policy is a local one, she said.

The man’s name hasn’t been released.

All it would have taken is one hero to whisper “fuck this” under his breath and pushed the dude a few hundred yards. Could they have saved him? I don’t know, but you’d think that someone would have tried instead of hiding behind a policy. If they had tried to get him to the emergency room, we probably wouldn’t have heard this story.

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5 Comments on Vet dies at VA hospital waiting for an ambulance

  1. Holy shit, that’s here where I live. My dad worked there for years and I roamed all over that place as a kiddo. That is so fucking sad and horrible. How the fuck do you die at an establishment that’s 100% supposedly made to ASSIST veterans?!? HOW?!?!?!

  2. If something like this happened at a hospital or nursing home, they’d be shut down, but because this is a govt facility, they’ll look the other way.

  3. Try having a heart attack across the street from a DC fire house – same result.

    Get used to it, anything staffed by government workers doesn’t work anymore.

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