By . Alexandra Klausner . PUBLISHED: . 12:43 EST, 12 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:43 EST, 12 October 2013 . Laporshia Massey, 12, died of an asthma attack on Sept.25 . after staff members at Bryant Elementary School in Cobbs Creek, PA didn’t provide immediate . rescue. The school only has a nurse on staff two days a week. This . is due to Philadelphia budget cuts in schools implemented by Gov. Tom Corbett. Daniel Burch, Laporshia’s father, is outraged. He says he received . a call from the school saying that his daughter felt sick but assumed she was . with a nurse. He told his daughter he would take care of her when she got . home. 12-year-old Laporshia Massey, a student at Bryant Elementary School in Cobbs Creek died September 25 beacuse there was no school nurse to assist her . Burch’s fianceé, Sherri Mitchell also received a call from . the school and says that volunteers at the school told Mitchell that the girl said . she couldn’t breathe. “Why didn’t [the school] take her to the hospital?’ asked . Laporshia’s father. He believes that a qualified nurse would have recognized . Laporshia’s illness as an emergency. After the first budget and staffing cuts, one nurse warned . the school that teachers were not qualified to help asthmatic students in her . absence. ‘Without the school nurse, at a minimum, persistent errors . in judgment will result in a child getting a substandard education,’ says . school nurse Eileen Duffey. ‘In worst-case scenarios, life-threatening . conditions may surface while a child is in school and go unnoticed.’ Bryant Elementary school in Cobbs Creek, PA where lack of medical assistance resulted in a young girl's death . According to Philadelphia School District Rules school staff . members ‘must act promptly to provide immediate care.’  A source for the district believes, ‘if they . had called rescue, she would still be here today.’ At the end of the school day a staff member drove Laporshia . home at 3:15. Burch immediately recognized that his daughter needed immediate . care after she ran up her stairs to grab her nebulizer machine. Burch drove his daughter to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia . where she died later that afternoon. According to The Washington Post, School's don't only lack nurses, they lack administrative staff to deal with a crisis. They are also dissuaded from calling 911 in most situations. Pennsylvania Department of Health spokesperson Holli Senior . told City Paper that she offered assistance in going over Laporshia’s death to help the school recognize critical errors. They recommend this ‘in certain situations to . ensure that they did what they were supposed to do, in the order that they were . supposed to do it.’ The school told Senior that they didn’t want any assistance . or the health department to get involved. Hundreds of parents have filed complaints regarding the . shortage of qualified health . professionals in schools due to budget cuts. Laporshia's father, Daniel Burch, tells reporters he doesn't understand why the school didn't call the hospital .
School budget cuts allowed for a school nurse only 2 days a week .
12-year-old Laporshia would have lived if the school called rescue, according to a District source .
Teachers told her 'just be calm' and didn't take her to the hospital .
By . Alexandra Klausner . PUBLISHED: . 12:43 EST, 12 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:43 EST, 12 October 2013 . Laporshia Massey, 12, died of an asthma attack on Sept.25 . after staff members at Bryant Elementary School in Cobbs Creek, PA didn’t provide immediate . rescue. The school only has a nurse on staff two days a week. This . is due to Philadelphia budget cuts in schools implemented by Gov. Tom Corbett. Daniel Burch, Laporshia’s father, is outraged. He says he received . a call from the school saying that his daughter felt sick but assumed she was . with a nurse. He told his daughter he would take care of her when she got . home. 12-year-old Laporshia Massey, a student at Bryant Elementary School in Cobbs Creek died September 25 beacuse there was no school nurse to assist her . Burch’s fianceé, Sherri Mitchell also received a call from . the school and says that volunteers at the school told Mitchell that the girl said . she couldn’t breathe. “Why didn’t [the school] take her to the hospital?’ asked . Laporshia’s father. He believes that a qualified nurse would have recognized . Laporshia’s illness as an emergency. After the first budget and staffing cuts, one nurse warned . the school that teachers were not qualified to help asthmatic students in her . absence. ‘Without the school nurse, at a minimum, persistent errors . in judgment will result in a child getting a substandard education,’ says . school nurse Eileen Duffey. ‘In worst-case scenarios, life-threatening . conditions may surface while a child is in school and go unnoticed.’ Bryant Elementary school in Cobbs Creek, PA where lack of medical assistance resulted in a young girl's death . According to Philadelphia School District Rules school staff . members ‘must act promptly to provide immediate care.’  A source for the district believes, ‘if they . had called rescue, she would still be here today.’ At the end of the school day a staff member drove Laporshia . home at 3:15. Burch immediately recognized that his daughter needed immediate . care after she ran up her stairs to grab her nebulizer machine. Burch drove his daughter to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia . where she died later that afternoon. According to The Washington Post, School's don't only lack nurses, they lack administrative staff to deal with a crisis. They are also dissuaded from calling 911 in most situations. Pennsylvania Department of Health spokesperson Holli Senior . told City Paper that she offered assistance in going over Laporshia’s death to help the school recognize critical errors. They recommend this ‘in certain situations to . ensure that they did what they were supposed to do, in the order that they were . supposed to do it.’ The school told Senior that they didn’t want any assistance . or the health department to get involved. Hundreds of parents have filed complaints regarding the . shortage of qualified health . professionals in schools due to budget cuts. Laporshia's father, Daniel Burch, tells reporters he doesn't understand why the school didn't call the hospital .
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