Dialysis patients across regional Victoria are facing transport challenges after Ambulance Victoria cut back its transport services. For many, these services are a lifeline to their regular, life-saving treatments. Now, patients who once depended on these services are being told to make alternative arrangements or to use the Multi-Purpose Taxi Program, which offers discounted taxi…
The Nationals’ Member for Shepparton District, Kim O’Keeffe has called on the Minister for Ambulance Services, Mary-Anne Thomas, in Parliament, to establish a fully funded Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic (MICA) unit in the Hume region which includes the Shepparton District. Ms O’Keeffe expressed her concern that despite multiple business cases and requests from local paramedic…
Kim O’KEEFFE (Shepparton) (19:13): (827) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Ambulance Services, and the action I seek is the establishment of a mobile intensive care paramedic, MICA, unit in the Shepparton district. Despite numerous business cases and requests from local paramedic team managers, the Shepparton region is the only region within the…
The ambulance ramping that GV Health experienced this week, which left ten ambulances queued for up to nine hours and the region without available ambulances during that time, has highlighted once again that medical staff at the hospital are being pushed to their limits. “I was contacted by a very distressed emergency department nurse from…