Person who ate too much kebab called for ambulance, service in Wales reveals

HAYSIE

A person called for an ambulance after eating too much kebab, a service has revealed.

Further 999 calls were made in Wales because someone had misplaced their false teeth, and another had their hand stuck in a letterbox.

A lost voice and a ring stuck on a finger prompted other inappropriate calls to the Welsh Ambulance Service.

The service had 414,149 calls last year and of those, 68,416 were not a life-or-death emergency, it said.

That's an average of 188 calls a day which has prompted the trust to remind people only to dial 999 if someone is seriously ill or injured.

Andy Swinburn, executive director of paramedicine, said "inappropriate calls put additional strain on an already over-stretched service".

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Essexphil

Some of these calls are malicious. But more of them are down to stupidity and/or mental health issues.

Andy Swinburn could have gone down the education route. Could have diversified some of the team to deal with the mentally unwell.

But no-went for the ritual humiliation option.

Paramedics deserve better. As do we.

HAYSIE

Essexphil said:

Some of these calls are malicious. But more of them are down to stupidity and/or mental health issues.

Andy Swinburn could have gone down the education route. Could have diversified some of the team to deal with the mentally unwell.

But no-went for the ritual humiliation option.

Paramedics deserve better. As do we.

There are lots of recent mental health issues cropping up lately.
You have the one where police didnt respond to a 999 call, but responded to the second one to find 4 bodies.
Then there were the horrible Nottingham murders.
It is all very well for the police to say they are not going to respond to them, but you would have thought that an alternative solution might have been found, before putting their plan into action.