Paramedic assaulted while treating critically ill woman, 22, at Sydney nightclub

RIOT squad police had to be called in to protect paramedics who were allegedly attacked while trying to revive a critically ill woman after she collapsed at a Sydney nightclub.

A man has been charged after a paramedic was allegedly assaulted.

RIOT squad police had to be called in to protect paramedics who were allegedly attacked while trying to revive a critically ill woman after she collapsed at a Sydney nightclub.

Officers had to form a guard between the paramedics and family and friends after one was physically assaulted by a relative of a woman celebrating her 22nd birthday at Pontoon Bar at Darling Harbour just after 12am.

Police were forced to escort partygoers out of the club.

The Daily Telegraph observed paramedics struggling to transport the collapsed woman to an ambulance through the crowd of frantic patrons.

The members of the riot squad were then deployed at St Vincent’s Hospital where the woman remains in a critical condition, believed to be related to a medical condition.

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A 27-year-old man, believed to be the woman’s brother-in-law, was charged with assault, hindering an ambulance officer by an act of violence and supplying cocaine.

He was granted police bail to appear in court next month.

Paramedics were called to treat a woman who collapsed inside the nightclub.

A cameraman, 42, was also charged for hindering police.

“It’s a disgrace that officers are attacked while trying to save someone’s life,” NSW Ambulance Commissioner Dominic Morgan said.

Police were seen running into the nightclub from all directions.

Officers arrested two men at the scene.

“The bravery of the officers to pit themselves in harms should be commended.”

Police Inspector Gary Coffey said “people should be rightly outraged by the incident”.

He said it was unusual to have to protect paramedics in the line of duty and said he found the incident disturbing.

The union representing NSW paramedics slammed the attack, calling it “cowardly”.

The NSW branch of the HSU says paramedics may need to start wearing body cameras to deter “idiots” from attacking them while they’re working.

Ambulance personnel called for police assistance and the entire nightclub was declared a crime scene.

“While there have been more paramedics employed in recent times you can’t prevent cowardice from drunk idiots,” union secretary Gerard Hayes said in a statement today.

A group of university students were passing the nightclub when the frenzy broke out.

“People were just running everywhere,” one said.

“We thought that someone might have been killed at the bar, police were sprinting in from everywhere.”