AMBO CRISIS UPDATE - Last night my father needed an ambulance (non COVID related issue). He is 79, was fainting non stop, vomiting when conscious and had a blood nose. I’d consider that an emergency. My sister (who he lives with) called 000 at 9pm.The operator asked a series of..
questions before telling my sister Dad doesn’t fit the criteria as ‘urgent’. She told my sister someone would call her back straight away to Triage him further. 35 minutes later, someone else called back and asked the same questions and again, said someone would call back …….
straight away. Another 30 minutes passes. A doctor from a hospital in Sydney (my Dad lives in Melbourne) rang my sister and spoke to her for 20 minutes, provided some advice and recommended he see a doctor (no shit !). My sister and I are furious and this is….
obviously the new normal in Victoria and the standard of care only an Andrews Government is capable of. My father is still very unwell and I am left thinking what if this had of been a little bit more serious? He could have died quite easily. We desperately needed the ambulance
for Dad as he is a large man, and my sister was unable to move him. So even if she wanted to take him to hospital herself, she was unable to. Fingers crossed Dad will be fine, but this Ambulance crisis is an absolutely disgrace and is unquestionably killing people. How much…
longer do we put up with this? What needs to happen before something changes? Didn’t this government promise investment into Emergency Services 2 years ago to avoid this scenario? I’m so angry. If you have experienced something similar, please respond.
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