Ambos forced on footpath over hospital ramping
Paramedics were forced to park their ambulances on a sidewalk outside an emergency department in Melbourne northwest’s amid a crippling ramping crisis.
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Sick grandfather’s horror five-hour ramping ordeal
The wife of a grandfather who was ramped outside Frankston Hospital while having a suspected heart attack says the ordeal proves our health system is “broken”.
Mum’s emotional video after daughter found safe
Video shows a mum thanking emergency services after her daughter was found alive after being lost in the Grampians since 8pm Thursday.
Major ambo reform may be years away
A major reform recommended by a royal commission on mental health call-outs may take at least two years to be implemented.
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Cop opens up on husband taking his life: ‘I live with it every day’
Beth Docksey speaks for the first time about the loss of her husband, a decorated officer who succumbed to PTSD after preventing a public mass shooting. He later took his own life in front of her at a police station. CHECK OUT THE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST
Raging fire left women clinging to building… then they jumped
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‘It took my breath away’: Crash that killed mum and unborn twins
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Thanks A Million: Nominate your hero
Already 2020 has been a year like no other – from devastating bushfires to a global pandemic. We want to honour and say thanks to the kind, brave, selfless people who are helping us through it. Because they are all one in a million.
Chilling videos: Police, firies, paramedics in life or death calls
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