Comment on Daily Discussion Thread:đˇMon 15 Apr 2024
Nath@aussie.zone â¨6⊠â¨months⊠agoI have zero clue where the Ambulance substations are in WA - other than the local one in my area. So far as I know, the ambulance services here arenât even run by the government. The main service is provided by St Johnâs Ambulance, and there are private ambulance services that do some events and patient transfers.
I assume the latter sort operate out of some industrial area depot(s) somewhere.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yep. For some reason both WA and the NT went the private ambo route. St Johnâs is a not for profit charity though, so I guess that makes it slightly less shit. For the most part, all the other mainland states and territories run their own Ambos, although depending on where you are thereâs sometimes a fair few st Johnâs Ambos floating around as well.
Your EmergencyWA site doesnât seem to show emergency stations, at least on mobile. VicEmergency shows the location of all the emergency services
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Red F for fire brigade, P for police, Iâm sure you get the picture. Green F is Forest Industry Brigade/Forest Fire Management Victoria. Theyâre an odd organisation too. They seem to mostly exist as a loose grouping of private fire engines operated by forestrys to, yâknow, make sure they donât burn down, except sometimes they also have their own apparatuses and stations and staff. Unlike AV they basically are a spy agency. Damn near impossible to find anything about them or their vehicles
Nath@aussie.zone â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
St Johnâs has near universal acclaim in the community. I honestly never hear anything against them.
Itâs not so much that the government âwent the private routeâ as that St Johns have been providing services since the 1800âs. I just looked it up, the city ambulance service started in 1922 - over 100 years ago. So, itâs more that we already had a perfectly good ambulance service and the government has never needed to replace it.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
That was not a dig on them or their staff. That was just my opinion that private health services are generally shit (shit THAT theyâre privatised, and not necessarily shit as an entity).
Personally, I consider any ambulance service not run by the health department or another branch of government to be private, regardless of how long they have existed.