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WASHINGTON — A D.C. paramedic has been placed on leave and an investigation is under way after an 87-year-old woman died at a local hospital. The incident occurred Nov. 17 when D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded to a call for a woman experiencing abdominal pains.
A fire engine and ambulance from Engine Company 11, located at 14th Street and Park Road NW, responded to the call. According to sources familiar with the investigation, the paramedic who arrived on the fire engine determined the woman’s condition was not serious and declined to accompany her to the hospital, despite the request of ambulance personnel that the paramedic stay with the patient.
The ambulance unit took the woman to Howard University Hospital, where she later died of an apparent heart attack. Her official cause of death is still to be determined. Fire and EMS Chief Kenneth Ellerbe tells WTOP the medic who declined to stay with the victim has been placed on administrative leave with pay.
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