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Ambulance Charges?

  • 20-04-2010 9:29pm
    #1
    Tenks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭


    Hi all, just a quick question for anyone that may know.


    So, last weekend I went out with afew mates from College and towards the end of the night one of my friends got abit worse for wear. So, my and another friend waited with him, gave him water in the hope he would sober up. After almost two hours of getting sick, my mate got abit afraid that he has been spiked during the evening and decided to ring for an Ambulance.

    Now, I tried to convince him that he would be fine and as soon as he showed ANY signs of improvement I would take him home but he was having none of it. He proceeded to ring and when the Paramedics arrived they looked at my mate for afew seconds and asked him to try lift his head up, which he could. The Paramedic said that he just needed to get some sleep and left.

    Now, here's the thing. I was under the impression that you would only be charged if they took you to A&E, but the friend who rang the Ambulance's older brother seems to believe that just having them show up is a €200 charge. Anyone know if this is true or not? :(


Comments

  • #2
    timmywex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭timmywex


    Ambulance is free.

    Your correct in the way you say the only charge would be by the hospital for the standard a+e visit...


  • #3
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    It should be the opposite. People should be charged for wasting their time and not those who really need them.


  • #4
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    Good question. I would be of the opinion he should be charged for the call out. however it does raise other issues as it could prevent people calling ambluances, when they should.

    Plus he was right, the most drug used in drink spiking is alchol. Here it is actually a serious offence to increase another persons intake without their knowledge.

    In your case though I suspect it your friend was the culprit. Its like a bloke who has 18 pints and a burger, throws up and blames the burger.


  • #5
    paraletic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭paraletic


    yeah ambulance is free

    imo it is not the drunks that waste my time, because sometimes they really can't look after themselves and their freinds have decided not to look after them either,
    the time wasters are the whingers who ring an ambulance for the most trivial reasons or grown men with a pain in their tummy, or the 'queue skippers' (HA-HA), or the people who ring for mammy and then follow in the car, or 90% of our calls or most medical cards patients! etc etc


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