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Dec 16, 2021 11:53 AM ESTParamedics refused to enter California care facility to help man in cardiac arrest due to 'some COVID-19 law': PoliceThe city of Rialto is currently investigating a Nov. 11 incident in which paramedics allegedly refused to enter a care facility to help a man in cardiac arrest, citing a COVID-19 guideline.Hannah Nightingale The California city of Rialto is currently investigating a November 11 incident in which paramedics allegedly refused to enter a care facility to help a man in cardiac arrest, with emergency responders citing a COVID-19 guideline that wasn't fully followed.On November 11, 911 dispatchers received a call from the Rialto Post Acute Care Center at around 7:50 pm. According to Fox News, the paramedics and police were originally there for an unrelated patient, with the officer stating in his report that the facility was being "problematic.""After a few moments, an unknown employee of the location yelled out to fire personnel 'Please come help, he's having cardiac arrest,'" the officer wrote."Fire personnel responded by insisting the patient had to be brought outside the facility before they could provide any sort of treatment… due to an unspecified COVID-19 law." ...The bed the man was on had no wheels, so the officer began pushing the bed towards the paramedics outside."Despite being in their line of sight, fire personnel still insisted on [name redacted] being brought to them outside before they began life saving efforts and made no effort to assist me in getting [redacted] outside," the officer wrote in his report.Once outside, the several emergency medical personnel began treating the man ...
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