Her family says she is on life support, and that doctors say she is brain dead.
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Meanwhile the principal of the school denied claims that the staff didn’t do enough to help the child, dnainfo.com reported. “It’s the school’s fault”.
Handout Second-grader Noelia Echavarria (pictured) is on life support at NYU Langone Medical Center after choking at PS 250 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Noelia Echavarria is not expected to recover.
The Department of Education issued this statement Tuesday afternoon: “Our thoughts and prayers are with Noelia and her family and school community”. The girl’s uncle then found the girl lying on the floor in a hallway at the school – lifeless and covered in blood, surrounded by school staffers who wouldn’t touch her. Reid has reportedly been suspended from his EMT position for making an unauthorized stop.
Assist Ambulance worker Qwasi Reid was transporting a nursing home patient last Wednesday with his partner when they were flagged down at a red light by a distraught man.
Susan Watts / NY Daily News “Why, why couldn’t the school help her?” asked Noelia’s stricken mom Ana Santiago, 39.
Reid left his patient in the care of his partner and followed the man into the school building at 108 Montrose Ave.
She was already turning blue and that takes awhile.
As for Reid, he is upset that he’s been fired for doing a good deed. In addition, they say teachers often rushed her to finish her lunch and think this is what caused the choking incident this time around. “I cleared the airway”. Cached versions of the site indicate the company has provided emergency and non-emergency transport services to New York City hospitals for 30 years, and employs a multi-lingual staff.
Since his heroic effort, Reid has been suspended from his ambulance company for unknown reasons. Reid placed a call in to his station and advised of the situation, even though he knew the rule of not leaving the vehicle. No one at the school was assisting the girl, he said. FDNY officials wouldn’t say who called 911. “And if that’s the case, that means he’s the first person to call 911”, Perecman told Fox 6 Now. But his employers are upset he got involved.
But Reid says he doesn’t regret it one bit.
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Assist Ambulance did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
