In this case the woman in question could quite literally fight that until she was blue in the face and likely die doing so. The responses would range from foot-

In this case the woman in question could quite literally fight that until she was blue in the face and likely die doing so. The responses would range from foot-dragging (if she dies while waiting, the problem's gone away) to offering newer alternatives such as the positive-pressure pumps discussed in the article. Sure those have problems of their own (sanitation, lung damage, infection) but they're a commercially-available alternative. There's a certain element of "arguing right-of-way" here, and the regulators that you reference are unlikely (these days unlikely in the extreme) to do enough to help her. In particular they're unlikely to do enough on a short enough time period to make a difference.