The mother of a four-year-old boy who had a seizure says she panicked while waiting more than 25 minutes for an ambulance to arrive
Elizabeth felt there was "no way back" for Oscar while they waited for the ambulance to arriveThe mother of a four-year-old boy has said her family is "on edge" after an ambulance took more than 25 minutes to arrive when he had a seizure.
The Ambulance Service has apologised and said the response time did not meet its target for the most urgent calls. She said that during the incident at their home in County Down last month Oscar initially appeared unresponsive but then started to have a seizure.Elizabeth says Oscar had never had a seizure before the incident at their home last month"I thought there was no way back from this for the length of time we waited for someone to come and [I was] just panicking the whole time."The Ambulance Service said paramedics arrived 26 minutes after it received the call.
Dr Sean McGovern, an emergency medicine consultant at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, said "avoidable harm" was happening.
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