An Ashcroft woman who lived in a seniors home a block away from the hospital and the ambulance station died of a cardiac arrest on Sunday morning.
That is because the emergency room was closed over the weekend due to a lack of doctors, and there were no ambulances in the village when the 911 call was made around 11:20 a.m. on July 17.
An off-duty firefighter, who was responding as a private citizen, had to perform CPR on the woman until paramedics from out of town arrived a half an hour later.
Troy Clifford, the President of the Ambulance Paramedics of BC says news of the woman’s death is disturbing.
