3-day-old dies after ambulance takes more than 30 minutes to help as desperate parents perform CPR

A newborn baby girl has died in the UK after her parents say that an ambulance took over 30 minutes to respond to their call , where they told the operator that their three-day-old stopped breathing.

The child's mother found her "stone cold" when she went to check on the baby, prompting her to pick up the phone and call 999 - the emergency service number for Brits - immediately. But instead of getting the help she needed, 'mum' Amelia Pill endured a seven-minute wait just for her 999 call to be answered.

The desperate family attempted resuscitation themselves, performing CPR for a grueling 40 minutes while awaiting paramedic assistance, as reported by the Oxford Coroner's Court.

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It wasn't until 5:09am that assistance finally arrived at their doorstep, a whole 30 minutes since the plea for help was made. Wyllow-Raine was rushed back to the hospital where she had been born, but it was too late, and she was pronounced dead upon arrival.

The heartbreaking death of Wyllow-Raine Swinburn is now under review by UK authorities who are trying to determine how it could take so long before assistance came.

Oxford's Senior Coroner Darren Salter has postponed the inquest, citing the need to collect more evidence. During a pre-inquest review (PIR) at the same court, details emerged about the three-day-old infant's short life, according to the Sun .

Wyllow-Raine was welcomed into the world at John Radcliffe Hospital on September 27, 2022, and was sent home on September 29. The distressing call occurred mere hours later when the baby suddenly crashed.

The early morning nightmare began at 4:38 am on September 30, prompting a frantic call to emergency services as her young life seemed to hang in the balance. However, the response was delayed, taking over seven minutes before the ambulance service picked up the call at all.

In a moment of high anxiety, her brother Luke was jolted awake by his sister's yelling: "Why are they not answering the f**king phone?"

Meanwhile, downstairs, the grandmother Anna Fisher, tending to the dogs, dashed upstairs amidst Amelia's cries of abandonment: "No-one is coming, no-one is coming."

A post-mortem examination revealed nothing unusual about Wyllow-Raine or even extremely rare conditions. Consequently, paediatric pathologist Dr Darren Farrell concluded her cause of death as sudden unexpected death in infancy, unexplained.

Following her death, an internal investigation was initiated by Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust. The investigation discovered that Wyllow-Raine would have experienced a prolonged period of cardiac arrest before the 999 call.

The final conclusion was "not likely to be influenced by the time taken to answer the 999 call and the arrival of the ambulance."