Friday, April 15, 2011

** UK medic pleads guilty to drunk driving during seven vehicle ambulance/car smash-up

** Drunk patient breaks female Manitoba paramedic’s arm

UNITED KINGDOM NEWS

** A former Stapleton paramedic, who was driving drunk behind the wheel of an ambulance at the time of a multi-vehicle crash last year, has been sentenced to community service. That is the word from the BBC (April 14) which said Robert Else, 39, who worked for the East Midlands Ambulance Service at the time of October 23rd incident, pleaded guilty Tuesday in city magistrate’s court. Originally claiming innocence, he changed his plea at the last minute. The EMS unit was not carrying a patient at the time. The seven car crash, which occurred near Bardills Island, Nottingham, injured four people.

CANADA NEWS

** Winnipeg police have charged a 27-year-old man with assault causing bodily harm after he broke the arm of a female paramedic attending him Tuesday. The Winnipeg Free Press (April 14) said the incident, which occurred at the Concordia Hospital, played out in the late night hours after EMS was hailed to deal with an intoxicated man in the city’s south end. Upon arrival at hospital, the man became agitated, attacking the paramedic. He was detained and charged by police shortly after.