She calls for help several times on Christmas Eve, the end of the evening is tragic

The end-of-year celebrations ended in drama at the Rahmans. On December 24, like many, everyone got together to spend Christmas Eve together. But that night, Iqbal Rahman felt bad. “He was complaining of extreme shoulder pain, had a very high temperature and was sweating excessively.explained his wife. He was initially advised that it could be due to his diabetes. It wasn’t until his breathing stopped that paramedics were dispatched.” At 7.07pm, his family called the West Midlands Ambulance Service for the first time. The 58-year-old father was triaged as a Category 5 case, requiring a callback with advice from a paramedic or nurse.

But since no one came, Iqbal’s relatives contacted the emergency services again 40 minutes later, then at 8:04 p.m. when he had just stopped breathing. Twenty minutes later, the paramedics arrived on the scene, but it was already too late. Despite 90 minutes of cardiac massage, the father of the family died. “We would like to apologize to the Rahman family for the late response and offer our condolences. At the time of the call, there were long delays in transfers to the hospital,” said a spokeswoman. Iqbad’s daughter, Minnie, paid him a beautiful tribute. “He was extremely caring and funny, quite silly. It shouldn’t have been my dad who died that way and it shouldn’t have been anyone else’s.”regretted the young woman.

“It’s really difficult for me and my family”

“My father felt in his last hours that no one was coming to help him, it’s really difficult for me and my family to live with”, said the daughter of the victim. She, and her family, absolutely do not resent the relief that came to help her father but rather the British government, which they blame for the current state of health services. Minnie said her father’s death was also “heartbreaking” for paramedics: “How many families will be traumatized before the government does what it needs to do and funds the NHS properly? The government has created a situation where it is impossible for healthcare professionals to provide the care they are trained to deliver. “.