Romania suspends license of ambulance that transported Ekeng

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romania's interior ministry has suspended the license of a private ambulance company that transported Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder Patrick Ekeng to hospital after he collapsed on the pitch during a match on Friday. He died later in hospital.

The ministry said in a statement late Sunday it found defibrillators with expired batteries in some ambulances belonging to Puls, and medicine used in resuscitation procedures that had expired..

Ekeng, 26, collapsed on the pitch seven minutes after going on as a substitute against Viitorul Constanta.

He was taken a short distance to the hospital where doctors tried for more than an hour to resuscitate him.

The ministry suspended Puls' license for one month to remedy the situation and fined it 23,800 lei ($6,050).