‘Breathe! Please breathe’: Why young Alisha died waiting for an ambulance

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'She's dying': Grieving mother's desperate pleas to triple-zero operator lay bare the system's shortcomings triplezero 60minutes

It’s when Alisha’s face turns a bluish grey that her mother, Jasmin Hussein, realises the window is closing to keep her 14-year-old daughter alive. Every second is precious, every minute a lifetime.Jasmin has dialled triple zero, and is waiting to hear the voice of a call taker to tell her what to do, or get an ambulance on the road. Victoria’s Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority is meant to answer emergency calls within five seconds.

Jasmin Hussein weeps as she and her family look through a photo album containing photographs of her deceased 14-year-old daughter Alisha.Alisha is 14. She wants to become a magistrate and is looking forward to getting her first mobile phone. Jasmin hears herself telling the Telstra operator her daughter might be dying.Alisha’s face isn’t only drained of colour. Her eyes have moved from pleading and panic to terror. Her lungs need air.

As each minute drags on, the Telstra operator responds calmly that she is “still connecting” to an ESTA ambulance dispatcher. But Jasmin is too focused on trying to revive her daughter. She is screaming at her: “Breathe, Alisha! Breathe.”Her lifeless eyes look nothing like those in the photos her mum would later carefully select and paste in an album. There is Alisha grinning with her little sister, one of seven siblings; there is Alisha with her best mates from school.Ten minutes.

Warnings about the need to properly prepare for surges in ambulance call-outs date back to 2014, but they have escalated throughout 2021.

 

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