Medical Emergency on SkyTrain today

[Volksboi]

I was riding the skytrain as I do every day on my way home from work and was in conversation with a friend of mine and we noticed a gentleman in his mid to late 40 starting to have what appeared to be a seizure. The emergency button was pressed several times as we approached Brentwood skytrain station and a skytrain official came on the PA and advised that there would be someone coming to the skytrain car at the approaching stop.

The train stopped at brentwood and no one came, the doors closed and the train proceeded to holdom and a female skytrain attendant boarded the train and the train continued to Sperling Burnaby Lake where the train stopped permanetly. This in my mind was crazy because the people on the phone with 911 had to keep changing there location as the train kept moving. There where two people on the line with 911 and the 911 dispatcher requested to speak with the skytrain official that was in control of the "scene". The skytrain official refused to talk to the 911 dispatcher and advised that she was dealing directly with skytrain control. This skytrain official did nothing first aid related, and did not even know how to check his pulse, which was shocking considering she was the one responding to the medical emergency.

About 3 - 5 minutes later another skytrain attendant boarded the train and he requested a passenger to help remove the man from the train. The sky train attendant did not support his neck at all, and just grabbed him by his arms and carried the man out with his head almost dragging on the ground. he then started CPR. The train started to move again and I was still on the train. I stayed in for two stops, then felt I needed to go back and give a statement to someone at the scene. At the time I arrived there was several fire fighters and paramedics on the scene trying to revive this poor man and continued to do so for what appeared to be about 10 - 15 minutes with no sucess of reviving him.

This was a huge eye opener for me since I have no first aid training at all, and had no idea what to do, nor did anyone else on the train. The reason I am writing this is because I am so upset and shocked that the person responding to a medical emergency had no sort of first aid training to assist this man, and even went as far as refusing to talk to a 911 operator who could have assisted her in helping this man. I am not sure what I should do. I feel I need to report this somewhere, as a man lost his life due to the situation not being dealt with correctly by skytrain.