'John was our son, brother, uncle, and friend. Everyone who knew him loved being around him. He always put others first.'
The family of a victim of the Manchester Arena bombing have slammed emergency services failures after it was found his injuries were survivable. The family of John Atkinson, one of the 22 who died on the night of May 2017, expressed their grief after it was found he could have survived if treated faster, Sir John Saunders, the chair of the public inquiry into the atrocity has said.
READ MORE: LIVE: One of 22 victims 'could have survived' if emergency service response was better, Arena report finds - latest "During this crucial time, Ronald Blake acted heroically to try to save John. We want to say thank you again to Ronald Blake for all he did that night. However, the medical tourniquets John needed were not made available and the paramedics who could have saved him should have been at the scene much sooner.
"As we know from witnesses, John kept asking if he was going to die. John must have known that he was dying and the pain that causes us is too great to put into words. This should simply never have been allowed to happen. He went into cardiac arrest at 11.47pm. He was finally loaded into an ambulance at 11.50pm and the vehicle drove away ten minutes later. He arrived at Manchester Royal Infirmary at six minutes past midnight and he was still in cardiac arrest. Attempts at resuscitation failed and he was declared dead at 24 minutes after midnight. Two experts commissioned by the public inquiry into the atrocity ruled his death was caused by leg injuries sustained in the explosion.
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