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[8 May 2012] - Ambulance doctors in eastern Ukraine ignored 13 phone calls from a bleeding boy in belief that it was children’s game, tsn.ua said on Tuesday. The seven-year-old boy went out to the balcony to hang up linen when he felt dizzy and fell to a piece of glass, which... cut off his right hand. The child dialed the 103 number as he was taught [to do] at school but doctors did not believe him. He got out of the flat himself and then his mother who returned from work found him bleeding. She called the ambulance, which arrived ten minutes later. Surgeons spent four hours reattaching his arm. The boy’s health is now out of danger but it will take six years until his arm begins to function normally again. Doctors in the ambulance service admitted that they might have ignored the boy’s phone calls. “Maybe… because every day we receive lots of phone calls from children with false complaints as they play with their mobile phones, and also from teenagers and drunk adults,” said Irina Proda, an acting deputy for the chief doctor at the local ambulance service. Further Information: