Aat Paula Martins, she dialed 911, but the call was sometimes put on hold to the sound of ‘Final Countdown’, sometimes switched to a recording asking her to fill out a satisfaction survey with the service using the telephone keypad and the protocol from Manchester (pre-Amorim). The Minister of Health had a teary head at the parliamentary hearing, felt political weakness and asked for a helicopter. An operator finally replied that he was sure and that he was also following the F16, the cruise ship and INEM’s Famel. Insensitive to sarcasm, Martins watched the help falling from the sky, while an ambulance decided between the minister’s political salvation and treating a pregnant woman in labor at a bus stop. M.B.
Source: expresso.pt
