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Ambulance Service : Prime Time 27thMar

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  • 27-03-2014 11:48pm
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    bmm
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    A shocking program on wasted resources that is costing lives!

    The head of the ambulance service Martin Dunne should resign ! The man is complete denial and that is a dangerous thing.


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    Sheldons Brain
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    bmm wrote: »
    A shocking program on wasted resources that is costing lives!

    The head of the ambulance service should resign !

    It goes beyond the head of the ambulance service, although he has questions to answer. The ambulance service is resourced at a level that will not even work in theory, and the responsibility for this lies further up the political chain.


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    Shady Tady
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    Sheldons Brain wrote: »
    It goes beyond the head of the ambulance service, although he has questions to answer. The ambulance service is resourced at a level that will not even work in theory, and the responsibility for this lies further up the political chain.

    Lack of personnel on the ground is what is wrong, plain and simple, cut to the bone and management trying to wing it and hope for the best, all emergency services are in the same boat!


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    legrand
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    as I lay serioulsy injured I can rest assured that all will be well because the Director of the serivice says they have the best equiped ambulances and the best uniforms available.

    Nowhere did I get a sence that the patient comes first - a national disgrace.


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    ednwireland
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    bmm wrote: »
    A shocking program on wasted resources that is costing lives!

    The head of the ambulance service Martin Dunne should resign ! The man is complete denial and that is a dangerous thing.

    agree, seems to be the same across the higher levels of the public sector total public denial of the problems

    if vehicles are taken home then they should be on call

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    washman3
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    BANANA REPUBLIC.:mad:
    Common denominator yet again is political cronyism.
    Heads must roll after watching this tonight, beginning with the Health Minister, preferably tomorrow morning.!!


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    Permabear
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    Manach
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    As however this does not advance the liberal agenda, this news story has legs for about 1-2days before being replaced by the latest new bauble the government dangles before us. I remember similar earnest reports on the service from the 80s, minor changes made then to gloss over the cracks and no doubt a similar Potemkin solution will emerge.


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    dublinman1990
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    I think the Ambulance Service in this country needs a complete rethink of how it is run has to be thought by both James Reilly and Alex White immediately to have an ambulance service to be both fit for purpose and realistic for 21st Century Ireland.

    The thought of these paramedic cars going to meetings in Navan instead of saving people's lives is one of a plethora of national problems that is wrong with our health service.

    Let's not forget though that it's not just specialist ambulance cars that are in the spotlight, it is those same guys running ambulance bikes as well.

    I going to say briefly say here without naming names that I have a paramedic who lives very close from me who uses an ambulance bike. This local paramedic of mine also lives near a former government TD who was part of a government that left the country in a big political fallout with the electorate.

    I would assume that this paramedic uses it on call whenever there is a serious accident, but, how often the bike is called out still remains to be unanswered.

    I am not going to say anymore on here though as it a public forum. Just make sure you pm me to hear the rest of the details.


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    Dannyboy83
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    Didn't see the program, but I thought this issue was known for a while already?
    http://www.thejournal.ie/midleton-locals-hold-protest-over-ambulance-service-after-boys-death-906399-May2013/
    ALMOST 200 PEOPLE protested outside the office of a Midleton TD this morning over the area’s ambulance service, following the death of a young boy in the town last week.

    Two-year-old Vakaris Martinaitis was injured following a fall from an upstairs window.

    He was brought to hospital by Cork All-Ireland winning hurler Kevin Hennessy, who met the family following the fall and rang the ambulance service.

    He was told there was no ambulance available at that time and drove the injured boy to South Doc and then on to the hospital.

    Sadly, the toddler later died in hospital.

    Vakaris Martinaitis is to be buried today in Midleton.


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    woodoo
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    Ambulance man: 'Sorry i'm 30 mins late Mr Woodoo but damn doesn't my uniform look great...'


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    No Pants
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    Manach wrote: »
    As however this does not advance the liberal agenda
    Sorry, when did what you describe become the liberal agenda?


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    PopePalpatine
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    No Pants wrote: »
    Sorry, when did what you describe become the liberal agenda?

    Losing his job at the Irish Times must have hit him hard.


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