{"id":48352,"date":"2023-12-15T14:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T03:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48352"},"modified":"2023-12-15T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T03:21:30","slug":"trouble-in-nz-health-system-a-nz-paramedic-shares-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48352","title":{"rendered":"Trouble In NZ Health System, A NZ Paramedic Shares The Truth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago I called an ambulance for a sick family member.<\/p>\n<p>While the one Paramedic performed extensive testing, another one just stood watching.<\/p>\n<p>I engaged him in conversation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I learned that:<\/p>\n<p>*North Shore Hospital is BREAKING Huge numbers of staff are away sick.<\/p>\n<p>*Virtually every night the St Johns Ambulances are &#8220;ramped&#8221; (e.g. parked in the Ambulance bays, and used as extra &#8220;rooms and staff&#8221;&#8230;.no room or staff to admit those brought in).<\/p>\n<p>*The day before our conversation,  20 ambulances were scheduled to be on duty   TWELVE of them were not operating due to sick staff.<\/p>\n<p>*YES THEY KNOW&#8230;.They are frequently running covid vaccinated young people to hospital with chest pain and suspected MYOCARDITIS.<\/p>\n<p>*St Johns is in strife because new graduates join them and work 3 or 4 years, before dumping their Paramedic career and going overseas.<\/p>\n<p>*He referred to our Health Care System as THIRD WORLD.<\/p>\n<p>As posted by NZ and the MRNA on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago I called an ambulance for a sick family member. While the one Paramedic performed extensive testing, another one just stood watching. I engaged him in conversation&#8230; I learned that: *North Shore Hospital is BREAKING Huge numbers of staff are away sick. *Virtually every night the St Johns Ambulances are &#8220;ramped&#8221; (e.g. parked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trouble In NZ Health System, A NZ Paramedic Shares The Truth&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48353,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48352\/revisions\/48353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}