COLAC and district residents face longer waits for ambulances when Colac’s hospital closes its overnight urgent care service.
Closure means longer wait for ambulances
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Its disgraceful what the Goverment has done. If any of my family should suffer from this I will be in touch with them politely. But, if any should die as a result, It will be a personal visit!!!
ted baillieu is hopeless
the state government have cut the ambulance service as well.
so…we lose our emergency department overnight, someone has a heart attack and can’t receive emergency treatment because the ambulance is in Geelong. Family doesn’t have the option of driving the victim themselves because there is no where to take them.
But this won’t affect after hours maternity services.
So what happens if someone rings the maternity bell with a relative in the car in full cardiac arrest? Will they be turned away? Every second counts.
I have just had a read of this article after hearing todays articles out of the paper today.
The Barwon Health CEO has made a blog post on this issue of funding cuts and that boards approach looks a lot better.
http://bhceo.org.au/?p=1122 I know it goes on about things like organisational strategies but I think having well documented plans that can be easily followed is needed for preventing these kinds of issues from having an impact, or at least as little impact on people as possible.
hmmmm how much are those 2 story appartments costing the hospital to house doctors. i would rather be doctors short then emergency closed. housing doctors wont keep them here anyway
It’s hard to believe that CAH didn’t see this backlash coming. What other cost cutting alternatives were there? Will we ever know? Is this really the ‘best’ they could do? The best for whom? Certainly not for the community.
How could Colac hospital Board fail to see this real cost to the community ?
Colac Herald: please publish the facts, the figures. At present this stinks of politics, badly. Let the community see the real figures, the budget and the funding figures.
255K seems incredibly cheap for such an important service. Is there more to this than is being reported? Wasn’t the hospital already running over budget?
Emergency services are important for **EMERGENCIES**. Just because they don’t happen every day, every hour doesn’t make them any less important. Would Iles advocate selling off (or not doing scheduled replacements for) district fire trucks because they don’t get used every day? Each one of them is worth about $250K. But when the proverbial hits the fan we need them. Cutting emergency services based on daily usage rather than overall importance is ignorant: which leads us back to how could anyone cut emergency hospital hours without taking into account the cost it has on ambulance services ??????