So when you're complaining about the Ambulance service strikes, I'd just like to give my story about my mum who worked as a ECA in South Central Ambulance service...
So my mum who had worked in several positions where she was helping people had a kidney removed. We thought the operation was a success, but a few years down the line it took its toll...
She was regularly working 14 hour shifts on a base rate of £19k a year, driving and treating patients with a Paramedic supervising. This went on for a long time, she looked and was exhausted...
She presumed that she was tired too, but she kept on getting on with her job of saving lives and caring for people. She just seemed exhausted, like everyone else in her station so she thought nothing of it...
On the way to a job she felt really uneasy, she ended up having a massive myocardial infarction in her own ambulance as her kidney started to reject and caused sepsis...
Being so overworked due to lack of staff, she exhausted herself to the point that she couldn't tell the difference from being tired and sepsis! She's now disabled and suffers with numerous conditions due to sepsis...
The Ambulance service strikes are vital as services such as the 111 service has increased ambulance call-outs massively. They're directly responsible for the increase in calls...
I completely support their strike. The ambulance service needs more funding, staff & pay. The 111 service needs reforming rather than being a tickbox exercise...
The health Secretary should be fucking ashamed of his comments about staff putting patients at risk. The biggest risk to the public is these corrupt Tory liars being in charge. #SupportTheStrikes #ToriesOut #GTTO
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