An 11-month-old baby has died in Portimão, southern Portugal, after six hours of waiting to be transferred from hospital because the ambulance was not in place. The paediatric interhospital ambulance in the Algarve region was not operational because there were no doctors who could provide neonatal intensive care.
In the end, a solution of last resort was chosen, to carry out the transfer by helicopter, but the child went into cardiorespiratory arrest when he left the hospital.