By Hannah Crown
This Is Local London
HERTFORDSHIRE, U.K. — A Chase Farm paramedic has been banned from the profession after ignoring a 999 call about a 90 year old woman who then died.
Patrick Rodgers, of Hertfordshire, wasted crucial minutes sitting in a depot at Chase Farm Hospital instead of trying to save an elderly woman who had collapsed behind a locked door. She died before he arrived.
He then tried to cover himself by claiming his ambulance had failed to start and lied to staff at the emergency operating centre, saying he was on his way when he had in fact turned off the ignition.
Full story: Rodgers had been paramedic for 20 years