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Originally Posted by Slava
It's not just one small symptom though. Paramedics pick people up, bring them to the hospital and then wait with them. In the meantime, more calls come in and there are no more paramedics to send out. So...sensibly, the plan is to have someone to hand these patients off to so that paramedics can get back out and take calls.
Will they have enough staff fast enough? No idea. Where will they get them? Not sure. But it doesn't seem like a crazy idea to try to remove a pretty obvious pain point?
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Here's my issue with it, the waiting room thing has been interesting to follow on social media the last two years because a lot of people have latched onto it while completely ignoring the reasons behind it. So to see the Government now also latch onto it is extremely frustrating because to me it's so obvious they're trying to look like they're doing something while doing the bare minimum. Meanwhile I get maybe one day a month to see my wife because of how overworked and stressed out she is, and last year four of her collogues that she personally knows have killed themselves.
It's absolutely just a symptom. It wouldn't be an issue if either the hospitals or paramedics could even properly fill a schedule. We need way more beds and nurses in general, why waste time specifically hiring them to babysit a waiting room when you can put them where they're needed most? It just comes across like the UCP is saying "This way those damn lazy paramedics will have to get back to work!" It's a middle finger to the actual people doing these jobs, and you can clearly see that by the reaction from the manager quoted in the original release.
I've said it 100 times before and I'll say it 100 times again, but solve the problem not the symptom.