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'MISHAPS' BY EMT BLAMED IN BX. DEATH
March 28, 2005 -- A Bronx woman's family claims she died because she had a heart attack en route to the hospital because EMTs had a series of mishaps — including running out of oxygen.
Kacahie Roopa, 57, died after a first 911 call was ignored, and a second one had to be made, her family charges in court documents filed at Bronx Supreme Court.
EMTs on the ambulance that finally did arrive, failed to carry her down an inside set of stairs, then ran out of oxygen, and waited for another ambulance to arrive with more oxygen before taking their patient to St. Barnabas Hospital, the family charges. Roopa died two days later.
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March 28, 2005 -- A Bronx woman's family claims she died because she had a heart attack en route to the hospital because EMTs had a series of mishaps — including running out of oxygen.
Kacahie Roopa, 57, died after a first 911 call was ignored, and a second one had to be made, her family charges in court documents filed at Bronx Supreme Court.
EMTs on the ambulance that finally did arrive, failed to carry her down an inside set of stairs, then ran out of oxygen, and waited for another ambulance to arrive with more oxygen before taking their patient to St. Barnabas Hospital, the family charges. Roopa died two days later.
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