Recently heard this from someone who works at NBCC, Someone died on the property a few days back from a heart attack.
No ambulance was available and the persons body remained on the pool deck for 8-9 hours until police arrived to investigate.
I wonder why nobody at the beach club attempted to call a doctor, Is doctor radomski (spelling?) still in Negril? or the female doc downtown??
Rob
Sad. I hate to hear that. I can only imagine what the persons family was going through.
So true!
I hear her son & daughter watched as someone tried CPR for about an hour without success
It's unfortunate that unlike many AI's the hotel (NBCC) doesn't have a medical person on call or even a first aid kit/defibrillator as many AI's I've been to in Montego Bay have a kit like this on hand god forbid it happens along with employee training on how to use it.
This is the second time in 30 days someone has died like this in Negril and no ambulance was available, last was a Italian teacher at a guest house in Jan.
Since these are obviously a second hand story at best, and the Negril rumor mill being as active as it is - I am hesitant to make any firm statements of fact about this case. I heard that the person who had the heart attack died walking to the beach from the road along a beach access area and not at any specific hotel property. That being said, several hotels in Negril do have trained staff and defibrillators on property such as Seastar Inn.
While our thoughts and prayers go out to the family, there is an ambulance in Negril with trained EMTs with proper medical supplies and it serves the Negril and the surrounding areas. It can often be heard rushing to an emergency.
Since I was not present nor have any detailed knowledge of either incident, it is always a possibility that the ambulance was already on a call as it does serve the local community. And reality being what it is, once a person is dead, there is no need for the ambulance as there is nothing they can do and it does become a police matter and the coroner and morgue become involved. I know this as I was at a hotel when a wife discovered that her husband had passed in his sleep. It is no longer a medical issue so the proper channels seemed to have been followed in case described above.
As for an Italian teacher dying in a guest house- this story was reported in Star back on January 9th, nearly two months go. She was an advanced cancer patient and died while waiting to be transported to the hospital. Once again, our thoughts and prayers go out to her famly and friends.
http://jamaica-star.com/thestar/2013...ews/news5.html
There are no real further details so to make any firm statements or judgments amount to nothing more than rumor and speculation, which truly serve no useful purpose.
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As someone who's family member Needed medical help, (heart trouble) I was Impressed with the EMTs
Maybe Negril is now in need of another ambulance. (100j per guess to update EMT services?)
with the heat in Jamaica, it is sad that a body has to wait in the elements to be removed and sent to the morgue. perhaps there needs to be more than one ME avaliable or a certain police officer on call at all times to make those calls. I can only imagine how devastated the family must have been to see their loved one lay for several hours in the sun. I for one would love to see another ambulance in the Negril area and I am sure the locals who live here would like one as well, it most likely is a matter of funds to support/purchase/man another one.
No excuses.
we were traveling in Jamaica when very little help for medical was available in West End.......we took chances we shouldn't have, and got away with it, seems fate is not so forgiving these days??
For a part of the Island that was the last to get rolling more or less andwith the monies available to spend they are making big strides...not that long ago IT WAS a sleepy little fishing village.......
We are use to having The Finest Medical services at our beck and call........(in 1984 we spent two days looking for gauze compress and tape....)...they have came a long way, and no doubt will continue togo forward....but with money tight things do wait their turn, sometimes unfairly....But seeing the progress they have made since we have been watching is amazing, actually much faster then it took place in the US for the early years.......
Talk about what you know and not heard, a death of a natural cause is not fodder for the rumor mill
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"YES,THAT WOULD BE MINE" I said as my leg that at first gave no pain, started dishing it out in large bunches........"
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what a horrible tragedy to experience whether on holiday or home.
however, one must consider this when visiting an island with limited resources.
friends of ours lost their dad on a cruise ship a few years back.
they kept him in a walk-in cooler until the ship docked.
and then there was the paper work...
if this is the case, having your loved one's body lying on a pool deck for 8-9 hours in warm weather seems harsh and unnecessary for the living to see
my window faces the south
and probably doesn't make the open casket option easy on the mortician.
my window faces the south
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