PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police are insisting that nobody from the staff of a city hospital helped officers struggling to revive a man who had suffered a heart attack in his car in the hospital parking garage barely over 100 feet from the emergency room.
Sgt. Pete Simpson, spokesman for the Portland Police Bureau, said Friday the only medical help the officers received was an ambulance crew after Portland Adventist Medical Center staff told a uniformed officer to call 911.
Hospital officials say they dispatched security officers trained in first aid and a paramedic.
But Simpson says officers were left to handle the situation by themselves.
The 61-year-old Portland man died after the ambulance crew took him to the emergency room on a gurney.
Police plan to review the incident with the hospital.
