Lithuanian police will assess whether there are grounds to open an official inquiry into the death of a man on his way to the hospital during the NATO summit in Vilnius, news website lrytas reported on Tuesday.
On July 11, the first day of the Vilnius NATO Summit, a woman called the emergency number because her son was experiencing shortness of breath and other symptoms after a stroke and jaw surgery. The dispatcher did not send an ambulance to help the man and suggested that he comes to the Lazdynai Hospital himself as he lived nearby.
However, the road to the Lazdynai Hospital was closed to the public as NATO leaders’ motorcades travelled on it. The car was diverted to a longer road by the officers, so the man got out and tried to reach the hospital on foot. He was found collapsed a few hundred metres from the hospital.
The Lithuanian Police’s Immunity Department is in the process of clarifying the circumstances of the man’s death, after which a decision will be taken on whether there are grounds for opening an official inquiry, Ramūnas Matonis, a spokesman for the Police Department, told lrytas.
There is also a pre-trial investigation into the cause of death and an internal investigation into the actions of the ambulance medics.
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