Back to the Ambulance...

Same theme as before guys but hey, it's getting my goat BIG TIME!

This story gives the background.

Joel Byers, of Unison, said: "I think it's ridiculous that an emergency service does not have a 24-hour cover. "

It doesn't matter how many extra staff the trust employs, there's no guarantee that they will be the closest to an incident."

Of course they have "a 24-hour cover"!! You think an ambulance service is going to shut down for half an hour while all the crews go on break...??

And of course there's no guarantee that they'll be closest to the incident, it only takes one idiot to call 999 because they've lost their trousers, and resources end up wasting their time instead of dealing with life-threatening incidents!

Grrr...

Even more human wrongings

Clearly spending too much time browsing the BBC News site, I came across this article.

Now, upon conducting a little research, I find that the European Convention on Human Rights gives us, as Europeans, the following rights:

• right to life
• prohibition of torture
• prohibition of slavery
• right to liberty and security
• right to a fair trial
• no punishment without law
• right to respect for private life
• right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion
• right to freedom of expression
• right to freedom of assembly and association
• right to marry
• right to an effective remedy
• prohibition of discrimination

So where does it become their human right to conceive a child? Being put in prison involves the loss of priviledges, having an as-yet-unconceived child should be one of them.

Imagine explaining it to the poor child as it grew up...

Goodnight all

R

Shambulance?

Another news story, another blog post...

My first thought, if a little contraversial, was that this man died of a "drugs overdose".

Yes, I agree, he's very entitled to emergency medical care, even if his requirement is due to his drug use (assuming it was illegal drugs).

But had he not been using illegal drugs, he would never have needed the ambulance anyway.

Also, the article appears to criticise the London Ambulance Service for their crews taking rest breaks. They often work 12-hour shifts, which not only are very demanding and often stressful, but also involve a lot of physical work.

Would the journalists who criticise like to work an intensive 12-hour shift with no break, then complain about the ambulance crews taking breaks?? I challenge them to do so.

And my final moan... why is the stock-photo of the ambulance so old!?

Take care all

R

Human wrongs

Click here and read me.

This has somewhat annoyed me, and I must say, I fully support the view of the Student Guild.

I'm all for equal opportunities, and in this case, to allow the maximum number of people access to their society, they should be allowing anyone through their doors, believer or not!

The Christian Society may argue that it is against their human rights to ban them from using their buildings, but what about their violation of the rights of those who wish to join to explore beliefs, or to experience other people's, but may not be a believer themselves?

The Archbishop of Canterbury says it looked like a "fear of an open argument". What sort of "open argument" only allows Christians? Doesn't sound very open to me...

Where's the sense gone?

R