BRITAIN’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE IS NOTED for its nutty rules and ineptitudes that often ignore the welfare of the citizens. Over the past year Firegeezer has reported on one of their more puzzling regulations that requires ambulance medics to take a full lunch break without interruption, even if somebody is in distress only 100 feet away.
It happened again recently, Septemeber 17, in Fraserburgh, Scotland. A woman collapsed in her home which is only 300 yards from an ambulance station. But she unwisely chose dinnertime to get sick and the paramedics at the station were never dispatched to help her. Instead, an ambulance manned only with EMT’s was sent from a further location.
Even though the ambulance arrived in four minutes, the crew was not qualified to administer the cardiac drugs that she required at the moment and the woman died two days later in the hospital.
BBC News has this latest STORY in muddled priorities.
Firegeezer notes: Everytime one of these events occurs, nobody is more distressed than the medics themselves. They do not approve of this nonsensical regulation that is forced on the ambulance services by a bunch of bureaucrats who get to go home every night.
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