An GP has said how he shouted hard to help while performing CPR on a fellow football fan, who was a victim Heartbeat During a match, but “nothing came”.
Dr. Richard Stones said in an interrogation that he ran to assist 57 -year -old Mark Townsend, when he fell, he fell West bromwich albian On supporters Sheffield WednesdayHilsboro Stadium on 28 September 2024.
Drawing 25 years of medical experience, Dr. Stones immediately recognized that Mr. Townsand was in cardiac arrest.
He administered the contraction of the chest in a frantic attempt to save them, with off-duty paramedic Chelsea Jones.
However, Dr. Stones described pre-hospital care on the ground as “the worst”, which they saw and a “hut”.
They told Sheffield Coronor’s court on Monday: “We are CPR. We are shouting to get some help and nothing came.”
Dr. Stones said that they asked Stewards to bring a defibrilater. But he told the hearing: “Really, the stewers were just looking at me.
“There was no communication, there was not even a little explanation – ‘what you want, what you want’.”
He said: “Honestly, he just looked at me.”
Dr. Stones said they felt that the first paramedics did not come for 10 minutes. He had a defibrilater but no oxygen.
He said: “I could see him walking across the pitch. There was no crowd. There was no urgency.”
Dr. Stones said that before the battery flat, Mr. Townsand was given two shocks from the defibrillator.
He said: “It was just a shabby.”
GP told the inquiry that it was decided to take Mr. Townsand to Concourse behind the Lappings Lane Stand, where he said there was “more chaos”.
He said that he was about to give intravenous drugs to Shri Townsend, because no one else was doing so when a steward asked him to “go away”.
He said: “I was really surprised what happened. I went back to my seat and sat there.”
Dr. Stones said that this was one of the worst pre-hospital Critical Care scenarios, which he saw, it was “just terrible”.
He told Sheffield senior coroner Tanka Roden: “I tried my best to catch things together and I was not heard.”
Dr. Stones told Mrs. Rawaden that she was a West brom pro -West brom for 50 years and was a regular in home and distant matches.
He said that he was a GP with the Ministry of Defense, he had experience working in the A&E department and also as a doctor of a football club.
GP said that Mr. Townsand Lappings were sitting away from about three or four seats at the upper level of the lane stand when they came to know that something was happening.
He said that Mr. Townsend, who was from Birmingham, was gray and he contacted to start the CPR when he had no “signs of life”.
Dr. Stones said fans around them were going to stop the game for referee and some supporters went on the pitch to try to stop the match.
He said: “They should have stopped the game.”
Asked whether the actions of the crowd near him did anything to contribute to the poor response he saw, Dr. Stones said: “Albian fans did nothing wrong that day.”
He said that supporters around him were “respectable and helpful”.
Mr. Townsand’s wife, Marian, left the hearing, while Dr. Stones were shown CCTV footage of the incident.
The doctor was asked by Ian Perkins to Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, could he be wrong about some of his memories, looking at the intensity of the events around him.
Sri Perkins suggested that it took about four minutes for the first paramedics coming by Mr. Townsand instead of 10 minutes.
And he also suggested that paramedics GP noticed that while walking across the pitch was those who were on the first scene.
Dr. Stones, who described themselves as just a “good Samari’s audience”, said: “I didn’t know everything that was going on.”
Barrister Peter Wilcock Casey thanked the doctor for all his efforts on behalf of Shri Townsand’s family.