Summer Wine
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 Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:33 am Post subject: Ambulance officers 'on grog run' while patient ignored |
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A MAN having a seizure waited for an ambulance while a paramedic went to the pub to pick up alcohol for an office party that degenerated into a racial brawl.
The ambulance officer, who was only new to the job in Queensland, was pressured into ignoring a callout which became a top priority Code 1 emergency while she was driving a senior colleague to pick up more "grog".
Paramedics say the incident added to stress on workers stretched trying to keep pace with a system swamped by demand.
Documents obtained by The Courier-Mail under Right to Information laws reveal that off-duty ambulance workers were holding a party at an unnamed Queensland station when they ran out of alcohol.
The documents show that all paramedics involved in the booze run from the party at the station on July 13, 2007, knew that a call had been made to dispatch an ambulance to a man having an epileptic fit. |
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25977350-5006786,00.html
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