AN Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) worker is dead after he collapsed outside his home in Pleasant Prospect, Tobago.His wife Patsy King-Roach told the Express on Wednesday she believes if an ambulance was available at the time of her call, her husband would have been alive today.She reported on Tuesday shortly before 7 p.m. her 52-year-old husband suddenly collapsed in the yard following the delivery of water to their home.“Is because I realised he fell by the tank and I was like ‘Densil’ (but) no response. Then I hurried down the steps and I get to his side and try to pull him up and I said, ‘What happened, Densil, what happened?’ (But) no response,” she recalled.King-Roach said she then called for help and relatives came to her aid.“So then I bawl out and call out to my uncle and then two of them come trying to assist us to help him up, but it’s like we could not keep him up,” she said.King-Roach reported calls were made for an ambulance but the family was told none were available.“Call the ambulance they said they have no ambulance. Called Fire Service, they said they have no ambulance either. So I called the police and the police said okay we will get on to EHS,” she said.She reported after an ambulance was dispatched over half hour later her husband was dead. She said the district medical officer said he died of a suspected heart attack.“If they had come there on time, the time when we call even self if they had come ten minutes, five minutes, he would have been alive...even though he was not talking he would have been stable, he would have been alive,” she said.King-Roach said their seven-year-old son keeps asking for his father. She added that the circumstances surrounding his death would never be erased from her mind.The Emergency Health Services (EHS) has launched an investigation into why no ambulance was available when the call was made.
Wife: delayed ambulance cost my husband his life
AN Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) worker is dead after he collapsed outside his home in Pleasant Prospect, Tobago.









