After Mercury Energy turned off Mrs Muliaga power stopping her assistance to breath was an ambulance not called? Surely this would have saved her life.?
2007-05-31 17:49:15 · 3 answers · asked by Natalie D 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Okay, this is an incident in New Zealand (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6703395.stm)
The BBC article says "...Paramedics were called but she died within two hours of the power being cut..." So it sounds to ME that an ambulance WAS called in fact in a New Zealand Herald article "* Mrs Muliaga's son said he delayed calling an ambulance at his mother's request" The son is 18 yrs of age and therefore a "responsible" adult.
The power company states "Throughout the 6-7 week process of disconnecting the home, and on the day in question, we were not alerted that there was a person resident dependent on a medical device reliant on electricity."
I'm saddened to hear this... but it sounds like the power company isn't to blame. It's the family and the local social services who screwed the pooch.
2007-05-31 18:29:34 · answer #1 · answered by mariner31 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our electricity provider will actually ask before the power gets shut off if they do not already know. Anytime I have ever phoned them they always ask if someone has a medical problem that causes them to need electricity. A friend got disconnected once and before they shut it down the man knocked on the door askin g the same question. Maybe this should just be a lesson learned by Mercury England and they should do the same thing. Other then that well her bill should have beem paid and her son should have made phone calls. They must have had to come to the house to shut it down...did anyone tell the person shutting it down of the situation.
2007-05-31 23:30:53 · answer #2 · answered by Ladybugs77 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know where you are from...but, in the US it would be common sense to call 911. I don't know what they have in that country....?
That energy company is defending the "contractor" who shut it off, even though (according to her family) they advised him she HAD to have her oxygen.
Whole thing is rather weird, especially for medical personnell to state " that she wasn't that dependant on oxygen or we would not have discharged her"
Ummmmmm.....well, now she is dead....so apparently she DID need that oxygen. Just some hospital trying to cover their a55.
Stories like this remind me of just how grateful I should be to be an American.
2007-05-31 17:59:31 · answer #3 · answered by renni1010 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋