Under code red protocols, people who phone triple zero might be encouraged to make their own way to hospital, while non-emergency vehicles can be used for emergency events. | cassieemorgan codered
Victoria’s ambulance service was forced to declare a code red for two hours overnight, as crowded emergency departments and high demand pushed its available Melbourne fleet to 1 per cent of its usual capacity.
“But when there’s only 1 per cent of the fleet available, there’s not much in the way of choice, unfortunately.” Ambulance Victoria said in a statement on Wednesday morning it enacted the red escalation of its emergency response plan because of high demand in metropolitan Melbourne. He said ambulances were ramped out the front of hospitals for hours each night and unwell patients were spending nights in emergency departments as there were no beds in the hospitals to admit them into.
Telstra service that directs Australians’ triple-zero calls to police, fire or ambulance is regularly limiting the number of staff
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