Moroccan Man Blames Spanish Hospital for Wife’s Death After Ambulance Denial

The events took place on August 7, when the Moroccan residing in O Grove alerted the emergency services to report his wife’s failing health and request an ambulance to transfer her to the Baltar health center in Sanxenxo (Galicia). But after the description given by the husband, the health agents did not consider the woman’s case serious enough to send an ambulance and rather asked him to take her to the indicated hospital.

The Moroccan complied. Unfortunately, on his arrival at the hospital, his wife was already dead. This is why he filed a complaint against the Galician health service, blaming it for causing his wife’s death. An accusation rejected by the medical center, which assures that the health professionals estimated that it was not necessary to mobilize an ambulance for this case and that it is "in no way a problem of lack of resources".

The center’s officials add that the Moroccan arrived at the hospital with his wife already deceased and "in an advanced state of decomposition", two hours after calling the emergency services by phone. The two parties will confront their versions before the competent court, which will determine the causes of death and who, the Moroccan or the medical center, is responsible.