Ambulance officers are very important to AEU members, whether they have been called because a child has had an accident in a playground or a parent visiting the school has had a heart attack or a student has an allergic reaction.
Ambulance officers work with AEU members to keep children safe. Read more...
“Like everyone else in our community we rely on the ambulance service. So, we're very concerned that it's taking increasingly longer for ambulances to reach people in emergencies."
"It is clear to me that the Victorian Government needs to recruit a lot more paramedics, if we're going to fix these problems.” Read more...
"It’s not acceptable that we have to wait up to forty minutes for an ambulance to respond from as far away as Echuca. Mr Brumby is putting our children and our community at risk.”
LOUISE HEMINGWAY,
Riddells Creek Play Group (Central Victoria)
My daughter Sophie was desperately ill and the paramedics were very quick to recognize what was wrong.
Although they were directed to the Royal Women’s Hospital they were closer to the Alfred and asked permission to stop there. They seemed worried that the extra time could have cost Sophie her life. Read more...
