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Ambulance Code Red (again) Melbourne
Jun 29th, 2022 at 7:59pm
 
Ambulances in Melbourne/metro seems very understaffed for paramedics as it’s the 5th time again this year like last night was declared code red as people couldn’t get ambulances. Apparently many paramedics were in isolation, or sick and quite a few asked to work overtime.

For me… I had no idea until today it was like that last night… because just before midnight, for first time in my life… I needed an ambulance with paramedics to attend to me… then I was transported to my chosen hospital (a private hospital where I paid nearly $400 for that) unlike 3 years ago in public hospital waiting 6 hours to be attended to.

My ambo came fairly quickly last night at the midnight hour and my transition to hospital, a bed and doctor attending went very smoothly.

How lucky was I? But why was I lucky when many were not? Is there a priority? Like bleeders first etc? Or because I live in outter metro area and not so densely populated?
Anyway… I was most grateful and I had 2 wonderful female paramedics.

It’s a concern these escalating Code Reds especially considering the 2 largest gens (as in census stats) aging baby boomers and middle age Gen millenniums with young families are the 2 larger groups in Oz.

I hope the ambulance situation is improved soon…
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Re: Ambulance Code Red (again) Melbourne
Reply #1 - Jun 29th, 2022 at 8:04pm
 
Sophia wrote on Jun 29th, 2022 at 7:59pm:
For me… I had no idea until today it was like that last night… because just before midnight, for first time in my life… I needed an ambulance with paramedics to attend to me… then I was transported to my chosen hospital (a private hospital where I paid nearly $400 for that) unlike 3 ye



I hope it was nothing serious lols.


Sophia wrote on Jun 29th, 2022 at 7:59pm:
Ambulances in Melbourne/metro seems very understaffed for paramedics as it’s the 5th time again this year like last night was declared code red as people couldn’t get ambulances


seems to be a common problem across the country. Flu season and covid are having an impact.

Not to mention the people that insist on going to hospital when a visit to a GP will do. Roll Eyes
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Reply #2 - Jun 29th, 2022 at 8:22pm
 
John Smith wrote on Jun 29th, 2022 at 8:04pm:
Sophia wrote on Jun 29th, 2022 at 7:59pm:
For me… I had no idea until today it was like that last night… because just before midnight, for first time in my life… I needed an ambulance with paramedics to attend to me… then I was transported to my chosen hospital (a private hospital where I paid nearly $400 for that) unlike 3 ye



I hope it was nothing serious lols.


Sophia wrote on Jun 29th, 2022 at 7:59pm:
Ambulances in Melbourne/metro seems very understaffed for paramedics as it’s the 5th time again this year like last night was declared code red as people couldn’t get ambulances


seems to be a common problem across the country. Flu season and covid are having an impact.

Not to mention the people that insist on going to hospital when a visit to a GP will do. Roll Eyes

That’s what I was hoping to do… wait it out until morning to see doctor … I even called the online doctor service but they were no help …
My son was annoyed I didn’t call ambo sooner… I said to him I didn’t mean to delay… just thought it would be okay in a few hours… and hubby was stressing… but he’s always stressing  Grin
I’m always toughing it out! Many of the elder gen do too… we feel we don’t want to inconvenience anyone.
So at age 68 I did okay to avoid ambulances all my life! And there were times I should’ve but didn’t …. Like the time I fell down stairs and landed on my back and my right kidney locked up … hubby wanted to call ambo abd I’m saying no no no… I said later to him… never to listen to me when I’m delirious and in pain!

I’ve been booked into see specialist and scans re: recent situation to make sure it’s nothing serious… I’m sure it isn’t… I never take myself serious  Grin
But glad medicos do.

If I knew it was Code Red last night I probably would’ve stopped hubby from calling an ambo thinking others are more serious than me!
Funny thing I overhear hubby’s answers after he called “000”
Yes
No
(Says name and address)
Yes
She’s always pale!! Huh

Oh yeah I am  Grin  Grin polar bear suntan  Roll Eyes
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Reply #3 - Jun 29th, 2022 at 11:19pm
 
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Not to mention the people that insist on going to hospital when a visit to a GP will do. Roll Eyes


Haha … and here’s to similar thinking …

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSdKxbhSD/?k=1
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Reply #4 - Jun 30th, 2022 at 10:22am
 
Hope you're OK now?

Ambulance ramping & lack of hospital beds is also a huge problem in QLD.
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Reply #5 - Jun 30th, 2022 at 12:09pm
 
Gnads wrote on Jun 30th, 2022 at 10:22am:
Hope you're OK now?

Ambulance ramping & lack of hospital beds is also a huge problem in QLD.


I will be okay… getting imaging done today to make sure it’s not serious… I don’t want to say she’ll be right because I refuse to believe anything can go wrong… that would be asking for trouble… in the old days they called that as ignorance being bliss.

As for that happening in Qld too… that’s a worry as many retirees go up there…either to live or holiday, the boomers are an aging population and we are one of the largest gens in Oz apart from the millenniums so if the ambo/paramedics shortfall isn’t rectified … it will not improve …. Be prepared for more code red!



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Reply #6 - Jul 1st, 2022 at 10:56am
 
Logical thing is that as population (and ageing) occurs, so do the need for more medical services.  So apart from keeping up the costs like inflation and wage rise, you have to increase the medical workforce and facilities.  It may mean a new hospital every 3 or 4 years.  It may mean 2 extra ambulance running year.
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Reply #7 - Jul 1st, 2022 at 11:08am
 
The biggest problem is that so many measures that state governments are taking now to counter this are designed to countering todays problem so as to stop the headlines. They do nothing to prepare for the projected increase in demand over the next few years.

As a result any fix ends up being temporary and next year we'll have the same headlines reappearing where they'll announce more stop gaps and they'll never really fix the problem
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Reply #8 - Jul 1st, 2022 at 11:12am
 
this problem will only continue to worsen.

the number of people over 80 will quadruple in the next 15 years.

there is no way that their health demands can be met unless we were to devote the entire budget to health.

sooner or later, those over 80 , especially if they are in nursing homes will be treated on site with more palliative type care and not the intense expensive care available in the hospital situation.

i would be happy with that.

when i am 80 i dont expect resources to be poured into prolonging my life when those resources could be poured into younger people in the areas of health or even education or training.

the government wont announce this but it will happen.

in the same way you cant get an ambulance to a hospital and get your tooth decay seen to, you wont be able to access an ambulance to a hospital to get your body decay seen to.

public hospitals will get back to treating acute illness, not the slow inevitable decline in health of the aged.that care will take place at a coummunity level and in the nursing home itself
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Reply #9 - Jul 1st, 2022 at 11:54am
 
And this Code red has a history of repetition.

From three months ago, 31 March...

"Senior doctors and nurses say overcrowding in Victoria’s emergency departments
is the worst it has been in years, leading to waits of up to 12 hours just to be seen
and reports of increasing abuse and aggression from the public.

The state’s ambulance service was forced to declare a Code red for two hours on
Tuesday night as high demand and hospital overcrowding meant 99% of the ambulance
fleet was unavailable due to either hospital ramping or because paramedics were
attending cases."

According to a report in May last year, one out of every eight calls for an ambulance
in Victoria did not require a patient to be taken to hospital and calls were often for
minor ailments.  Almost 22,000 people who called an ambulance in the first three
months of 2021, about 12%, did not require transport to hospital and only
needed lower-grade care.

Paramedics, who say they are being sent to people complaining of back pain, cold and
flu symptoms or irregularly coloured faeces, have asked people to stop calling triple
zero when they do not really need emergency treatment.
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Reply #10 - Jul 3rd, 2022 at 1:14pm
 
I’m reading in the newspaper about ambulance ramping and I didn’t quite know what that meant as I never had to have an ambo in my entire life…
What a shocker… ambulances with patients waiting to get into hospital for a bed or treatment.
I must say…first… the ambo female paramedic that treated me was terrific and they do an amazing job… admirably so.
Second… I was asked which hospital I wanted to go to… I was amazed… I thought they all took patients to closest public hospitals only.

I chose a private hospital…. the paramedic did advise me it’s about $400 to go to private emergency. I accepted it.
She said later it had been a very long time since she went to a private hospital. Meaning everyone obviously goes public.

And… no ambulance ramping there for me! Within 5 minutes of arriving I had a bed with a doctor and nurse by my bedside ….

If it’s life or death… choose private… your life is worth $400.

What’s that I hear? No health cover or ambo cover?

I do have hospital cover I pay hundreds monthly (for years!) and think I should stop it but… now this crisis with free public hospitals….. for once I’m not whinging about private health cover.

I got my kids into it too and they both hate it… keep saying they want to stop it as it’s a pain seeing that money come out of their account year in year out. I beg them to stay with it.

How does everyone else here think about private health cover?

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Reply #11 - Jul 11th, 2022 at 7:00pm
 
Yet another Code Red!
Seems to be the witching hours again.
Perhaps some doctors practice should be opened during night only to counteract the fact reg. Doctors are only available daytime hours?

https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-health-system-code-red-declared-melbo...
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