Elderly Woman Waits 70 Minutes For Ambulance To Arrive After Slip And Fall Accident.

96 year-old Irene Boylan slipped and fell in her apartment at the Calvary Baptist Senior Houses in New York. Security guard Fernando Sealey found her in pain on the floor. He reported that the assistant manager at the nursing home called for an ambulance at 1:17 p.m. The assistant manager would call 911 a total of three times before an ambulance finally arrived at the nursing home at 2:27, 70 minutes after the original 911 call went out.

The New York Fire Department explained that 911 operators were being forced to take calls down with a pen and paper, because the building’s 30 year-old dispatching system was being replaced after it broke down that morning.

Earlier this month, however, an ambulance took 30 minutes to arrive in Brooklyn when an intern for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn fainted. The late responses to emergency calls have been critiqued and deemed unacceptable following these instances.

Late emergency responses could mean life or death for an individual, and for an elderly person injured in a slip and fall accident, instantaneous medical assistance may be the only way to prevent the worst.

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