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It just continues and continues, no problem for Dictator Dan finding the big money to sponsor AUSTRALIAN netballers but no extra dollars for his failing Viktoriastan ambulance and health systems....meanwhile Viktoriastan citizens lose their life.
Call for an additional healthcare tier between presenting to a general practitioner and the emergency department
There are calls for Victoria’s urgent care system to be overhauled amid concerns paramedics are unavailable to respond to genuine life-threatening emergencies.Victoria’s Ambulance union has reignited calls to overhaul the state’s urgent care system after another code orange was issued on Saturday night following a surge in triple-0 calls.An Ambulance Victoria spokesman confirmed it experienced an increase in demand overnight, which was managed through its “standard and well-established escalation process”.
More than 50 orange escalations have already been issued this year.
A code orange is declared to alert the health system of increased demand for ambulance services or reduced ambulance fleet ability.
Saturday night’s code orange comes after a patient was forced to wait 14 hours on an ambulance stretcher at Maroondah Hospital’s emergency department on Friday.
The patient waited for so long the paramedic crew changed over several times.
Mr Hill said the code orange was being declared “every couple of days” because of overwhelming demand on the ambulance system.
“This has been happening so often it’s almost become normalised … there’s been over 50 this year”, he said.
“The other issue that happened last night was a big shortage of our MICA (Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance) paramedics right across Melbourne – there were 13 dropped MICA shifts that we’re aware of and the MICA crews are the ones that respond to the highest acuity emergencies.”