By Alison Sandy
The Australian
QUEENSLAND, Australia — A man having a seizure waited for an ambulance while a paramedic went to the pub to pick up alcohol for an office party that degenerated into a racial brawl, The Courier-Mail reports.
The ambulance officer, who was only new to the job in Queensland, was pressured into ignoring a callout which became a top priority Code 1 emergency while she was driving a senior colleague to pick up more “grog.”
Paramedics say the incident added to stress on workers stretched trying to keep pace with a system swamped by demand.
Full story: Internal report concluded that officers breached Code of Conduct