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CLEVELAND — Karen Alves is finally home. For the last two weeks, the Warren woman says she has been in the Cleveland VA hospital being treated for pneumonia. Even though she is now recuperating, she said she is extremely concerned that she was unable to get an ambulance when she fell ill earlier this month.
Alves, who works for the state of Ohio helping veterans, said it was close to midnight on June 11 when she woke up with an extremely high fever. She said she was disoriented and dizzy and called 911.
She was transferred to a dispatcher at MedStar, who first said he was unable to send an ambulance just for a fever.
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