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UK medics use ambulance to make garbage run

Health chiefs launch an investigation after complaints that paramedics used an ambulance to carry garden waste

The Telegraph

CORNWALL, England — Two NHS paramedics were seen unloading bags of garden rubbish from the ambulance at the SITA waste site in St Austell, Cornwall. Ambulance bosses admitted the incident happened and described it as unacceptable and inappropriate.

Matthew Chubb, 27, ‘watched in disbelief’ as the two man crew with ID badges pinned to their bottle green uniforms, pulled out at least ten sacks of waste from the 999 emergency vehicle.

The self employed computer technician. from St Austell, said:"I was queuing up in my car with my friend and there were around ten other cars at the time — other people must have seen them too. I was absolutely livid. It was a total misuse of an emergency vehicle.

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