Hong Kong’s MTR Corp denies refusing aid to man who collapsed near station
A widely shared social media post accused staff of declining to lend an automated external defibrillator as incident occurred outside station
Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation on Friday denied that staff had refused to lend an automated external defibrillator (AED) to help a 62-year-old man who had collapsed outside a railway station and later died.
Police said officers were alerted at 3.07pm on Friday last week to an incident involving a man who had passed out outside Tsuen Wan West station.
The unconscious 62-year-old, a Ukraine passport holder, was sent to Yan Chai Hospital in Tsuen Wan and later certified dead, police said.
The force said the cause of death would be determined after an autopsy.
The incident caught the public’s attention after an off-duty medical worker wrote a social media post about trying to rescue a man who had fainted at a taxi stop outside the MTR station.
According to the post, the medical worker asked a passer-by to go into the station to borrow an AED. However, the passerby told the medical worker that the request had been turned down by an MTR employee as the collapsed man was not inside the station.