John Teague of Gloucestershire, England, called 999 when his 52-year-old wife began to have trouble breathing. However, the BBC reports that when paramedics did arrive on the scene, they began making jokes about his wife's weight, just moments before she died.
Teague said, "They [joked about] getting her out through the window, which I thought was rather disgusting." Teague also claims that the paramedics wasted 2 hours in his house, deliberating how to get his wife out to the ambulance, "If they'd picked her up, put her in a wheelchair, got her into an ambulance and got her to hospital, they might have stood a good chance of saving her." The Great Western Ambulance Service said it was taking the complaint seriously and was investigating the allegations.
[via The BBC]
