The death of a two-year-old boy nicknamed En En (恩恩), who died of COVID-19-related septic shock and brainstem encephalitis on April 19 six days after first showing symptoms of the virus, has sparked controversy.
The boy’s parents had repeatedly called the public health center in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和), but the calls were not answered. After they called the New Taipei City Fire Department, they were told that they needed approval from the health center and called 119 four times before an ambulance was dispatched, taking 81 minutes to arrive.
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The father of a two-year-old boy who died from COVID-19 complications last month expressed frustration on Thursday after the New Taipei City Government refused to provide an audio file of the call he and his wife made to request an ambulance.
Speaking to reporters outside city hall in Banciao District (板橋), the father, surnamed Lin (林), said that he was given a verbatim transcript and told he could only listen to the audio onsite.
The city told him this was because the recordings have the voices of fire department personnel, which are protected under the Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法), Lin said.
He
/ Staff writer, with CNAThe father of a two-year-old boy who last month died of COVID-19 yesterday asked why it took more than an hour to find an ambulance to take his son to a hospital, saying the delay led to his son’s death.
The father of a two-year-old boy who last month died of COVID-19 yesterday asked why it took more than an hour to find an ambulance to take his son to a hospital, saying the delay led to his son’s death.
“What exactly happened during those 81 minutes?” he wrote on Facebook.
The boy died on April 19 following six days of treatment in an intensive care unit at Shuang Ho Hospital in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和).
He was the first child in Taiwan to die of COVID-19 since the pandemic began in 2020.
Attributing the cause of the child’s death to the
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The industrial computer manufacturing arm of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) is committed to integrating various products, markets and services, as well as diversifying its sales, supply chains and production bases, even though it is facing headwinds ahead, Ennoconn said in an e-mailed statement.
Net profit for the January-to-March quarter jumped 59.6 percent year-on-year to NT$313.81 million (US$10.53 million), its best