Newborn Baby Dies After Ambulance Fails to Come for Over 30 Minutes: 'Why Are They Not Answering?'

Mar. 15, 2025

Amelia Pill with newborn Wyllow-Raine Swinburn.Photo:Leigh Day / SWNS

Leigh Day / SWNS

However, on September 30, Wyllow-Raine was crying and developed a fever. At 4:38 a.m., Pill called 999 for an ambulance after her daughter was “stone cold” and appeared to have stopped breathing,BBCreports.

The mother began to panic after it took seven minutes for the call to be connected to an operator.

“Why are they not answering the f—ing phone?” Pill shouted while waiting. “No-one is coming, no-one is coming.”

Pill and her family members spent over 30 minutes giving the infant CPR until the ambulance arrived at 5:09 a.m. Wyllow-Raine was taken to the hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after arriving.

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On October 2, a pre-inquest review into the newborn’s death was held at Oxford Coroner’s Court.

According to South Central Ambulance Service, an ambulance was supposed to arrive within seven minutes in 90% of cases, BBC reports. South Central Ambulance Service did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

The full inquest is set to resume on December 2.

source: people.com