This is a story of contrasts. It’s a tale that combines the righteous and the most base. It’s about Victoria’s noble paramedics, and the perils of not ripping ass.
Yeah. Here’s the scene.
State Health Minister Jill Hennessy faced the media a lil’ earlier today, coinciding with a very real warning about misusing the 000 hotline.
According to Ambulance Victoria, about 95,000 needless emergency calls are put through the system each year. This, obviously, presents a challenge for the state’s mobile medical professionals and the staff behind ’em – they can’t be saving lives if they’re responding to needless call-outs.
Hennessy was kind enough to address exactly the kind of false alarms that we, as a nation, ought to cut out.
According to her, emergency services have spoken to “people calling because they can’t get to sleep, to very minor health conditions such as they cut their finger or they haven’t passed wind for 24 hours.”
This means that someone, somewhere, actually gave the ol’ Triple Zero a buzz because they hadn’t tooted, nor pooted, within the past day. One long-suffering Victorian deemed it necessary to alert the authorities they couldn’t even squeeze out a lone SBD.
That announcement lines up with a new ad campaign, which recounts the v. real story of a young kid whose life was saved because emergency services could respond so quickly:
We sincerely hope this campaign makes slightly-afflicted people realise they can just give the state’s Nurse On Call system a buzz. We also hope that over-inflated individual eventually found sweet release, but look, we’re mostly holding out for the Don’t Needlessly Call 000 thing.
Source: 9 News.
Photo: Dumb and Dumber / New Line Cinema.
Photo: Dumb and Dumber / New Line Cinema.
