Cars parked prohibited block an ambulance, a woman dies in Naples

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An ambulance blocked by cars parked wild in Naples

They tried in every way to move those cars that blocked the circulation, even they love.

A first ambulance got stuck.

A second ambulance was called in but was still blocked.

Twenty minutes the delay accumulated to be able to pass a funnel that had been created by cars parked wild.

Twenty minutes which, according to the denunciation of the None Tocchi Ippocrate association, in Naples caused the death of a woman for whom help had been requested.

It is not the first time that in Naples the ambulance race is, if not stopped, at least slowed down by irregularly parked cars or by vehicles that do not move at all to facilitate the passage of emergency vehicles.

Also this morning, in Pontecorvo uphill, the sirens sounded at full blast but despite this no one ran to move the parked car.

"It's street murder, the family denounces"

"Every day, every day in Naples the 118 ambulances are slowed down if not stopped by cars parked wild but as far as I remember a patient waiting for help had never died for this. There had been an aggravation of his condition but never a death. It is a very serious fact and I hope it will be considered a road murder ".

Manuel Ruggiero, doctor, is the president of the association 'Hands off Ippocrates' that every day, from the Facebook page, reports attacks on health personnel.

"The rescuers moved the cars by hand and in the end they managed to get to the lady's house - he tells Ansa - the phone call had arrived this morning at 118 for a request for help due to illness, for loss of consciousness of a woman. Time was lost due to parked cars? Say about twenty minutes. Among other things, after the first ambulance got stuck, a second vehicle was sent but suffered the same fate ".

"We will invite the family to report the incident - he concludes - often the 118 operators are attacked because they arrive late. We usually leave 30 seconds after the request for help. The delay is almost always due to uncivilized people who do not move, who they don't care and park wherever they want and this time they have caused the death of a woman ".