'Constant calls waiting to be responded to': Paramedics exhausted dealing with demand from worried COVID-19 patients

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Queenslanders with COVID-19 are still calling triple-0 for help, even if they have mild symptoms and do not require emergency health care, putting a huge strain on the state's ambulance service that is already on its knees.

Queenslanders with COVID-19 are still calling triple-0 for help, even if they have mild symptoms and do not require emergency health care, putting a huge strain on the state's ambulance service already on its knees, the union representing ambulance workers says.

Emergency calls have risen to about 3,700 each day, on average, across Queensland, which is a 32 per cent jump compared to January 2021 and up from about 3,000 calls last November. She said paramedics were asked to take on extra shifts, work additional hours with no break, and attend call-outs alone.

 

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Its their job! hire more paramedics to take some of their hours and let's see if they still going to complain.

If only the Media used it’s power for good and helped actually educate the population about the symptoms of COVID and how to monitor and treat them.

It's not like the Australian people didn't vote for this again and again. The defunding and destruction of public services. You got your lower taxes and racism on exchange. Stop complaining.

Didn’t see this coming

Avg daily20 out of 700000 unvaxed death in NSW Vic Avg of 20 of 12 mil vaxed death If unvaxed don't exists, death rate drops 40% to avg 12 daily, hospitalisation drops 80% rendering C19 as a typical 2019 flu with Freedom! Note Avg Vac effect is 80-90% wanes to 0 after 6 mths

'80 per cent of call-outs on recent shifts were worried COVID-19 patients, complaining of symptoms, but did not require emergency department attention' - Government-sponsored hysteria

Health First and Staying Safe.

This one's on you, media. You bombard people 24/7 with claims that leaving the house will almost certainly kill your loved ones, you end up with pathologically anxious, mentally ill people. It's going to take many many years to undo the damage.

Victim blaming seems to be a trend now in pandemic reporting. Don't blame the authorities, it's the public's fault. Sigh.

This is what happens when the media fearmonger the threat Abc has been a large part of that

On it goes ,worse it gets ,as for the 'ALP MAJORITY National Cabinet ' all it dies is debacle ,in planned ,knee jerk reactionary policy . Based on lies ,then LIE BIGGER . As long as $$$profits are maintained ,death by COVID19 perfectly acceptable , FASCIST BEHAVIOURS

The rest of the planet screams: 'YES, AUSTRALIA, WE KNOW'. This is what's been happening in the rest of the world while you spent two years complaining about your Covid lockdowns that are apparently the longest on the planet (except for when ABC fact checked them & they weren't)

thanks to morrison and the Queensland government people are anxious about dying

QLD is bound to be harder hit because unlike other states there is no charge for QAS at point of service, so no disincentive to call.

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