A 'fit and healthy' mum died while on the phone trying to get a GP appointment. An inquest heard mum-of-two Helena Maffei had been waiting for three hours to get an appointment.
When her GP rang back, Mrs Maffei was having a seizure and her 28-year-old son Giuseppe had dialled 999 for help. Paramedics arrived but were unable to save her and she was declared dead at her Stourbridge Road home, Worcestershire Coroners’ Court heard.
BirminghamLive reports Mrs Maffei, of Kidderminster, collapsed at 2am on the day of her death, but wouldn't let her family ring for an ambulance saying she would call a GP in the morning. She tried calling Kidderminster’s Church Street Surgery at 8.30am on September 23 and was waiting in a queue for over 30 minutes when her phone battery died, the family told the court.
