Pensioner threw flat keys to medics answering 999 call due to faulty door lock at flats
A ‘dodgy door entry system’ has turned council flats in Pensnett into a potential death trap according to a disabled resident.
Pensioner Maureen Bradley said she feared for her life after being forced to throw her keys from the window of her flat to paramedics answering her 999 call for a possible heart attack.
The system, at flats in Birbeck Place, was installed about 12 months ago and divorcee Ms Bradley, aged 75, said it had never worked well and engineers have to be called out up to three times per week.
Ms Bradley lives on the top floor of her building and has multiple health problems including arthritis which severely limits her mobility. She also suffers from a heart condition.
She said: “When I had a fracture of the spine the ambulance came, the door wouldn’t release so I had to throw the keys through the window for them to let themselves in.
“A few weeks later when I was at home recovering the cleaner came and the same thing happened so I had to throw the keys out of the window again.”
