Mother doesn’t blame ambulance delay for pregnant woman’s death

The mother of a pregnant Mearns woman who collapsed and died in 2013 does not believe that her daughter would have survived if the ambulance had arrived sooner.

Rita Wilson was reacting to a new report which said the first paramedics arrived 15 minutes 56 seconds after the first 999 call was made compared to a Scottish Ambulance Service target of eight minutes for the most serious emergencies.

Her daughter, Amy Wilson, and her unborn son, Harry, died after the 31-year-old collapsed in front of friends at a coffee morning in Laurencekirk.

Rita Wilson said she believed the delay in the paramedics reaching Amy probably would have made no difference to her chances.

Mrs Wilson said she fears she may never find out what killed them.

She added: “It was more or less instant and it wouldn’t matter if the ambulances had come five minutes earlier. If someone is gone, they are gone.”

Ms Wilson, who worked as an accounts clerk at offshore firm Subsea 7’s Westhill base, was 36 weeks pregnant with her third child when she died.

An ambulance service spokesman said: “The report concludes that the response and treatment was in line with policy and clinical procedures.”