A heartbroken widower has slammed an ambulance service which didn't send a crew to aid his dying wife until she had died - 16 hours after he first raised the alarm. Matthew Simpson's wife Teresa, 54, died on Wednesday (November 30) of a cardiac arrest after she went into a diabetic hypoglycaemia, which starved her brain of oxygen.
But Matthew, 47, believes she'd still be alive if the Yorkshire Ambulance Service turned up when he first pulled the emergency cord in their bungalow at 3pm the day before. He says he pulled the cord after Teresa, who suffered from muscle weakening disease Myotonic Dystrophy and diabetes, became confused.
The couple, from Hull, East Yorkshire, were told three hours later an ambulance couldn't be sent for a couple of hours as they were really busy. They both eventually fell asleep at 3am, but when Matthew woke up to check on Teresa at 7.30am the next day, he found her in her wheelchair completely lifeless.
