Union says staff furloughs and increased presentations at emergency wards led to ramping Tuesday night
Ambulance Victoria says it briefly enacted a code red alert, for less than two hours, due to high demand in metropolitan Melbourne.Ambulance Victoria says it briefly enacted a code red alert, for less than two hours, due to high demand in metropolitan Melbourne.Last modified on Wed 30 Mar 2022 04.06 BSThad just 1% of its paramedics available to respond to emergencies across Melbourne for part of Tuesday night, forcing to issue a “code red” due to the high demand.
The Victorian Ambulance Union secretary, Danny Hill, said just 1% of ambulances were available for a period on Tuesday night. “A lot of paramedics are telling us that patients are not up to date with their preventative measures on their health, they may not have stockpiles of their Ventolin, things like that, they haven’t gotten back into the routine of regularly seeing their GP since Covid-19.”
Performance data for the last quarter shows Victorian paramedics were called to 91,397 Code 1 cases between October and December – a 16.2% increase on the same time in 2020 – and the most Code 1 cases in a quarter ever. “We’ve had a longer, slow burn of our circumstances over two years, whereas Covid-19 really crept up and hit South Australia and the government at the time had really not paid any attention to what was happening in other states at all. It’s been clumsy,” he said.
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