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NSW health minister recognises work of paramedics during Wakeley riot
New South Wales health minister Ryan Park has recognised the paramedics who responded to the Wakeley stabbing incident on Monday night and the subsequent riot outside the church.
I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the very brave paramedics that extracted [the alleged offender] out that night.
They were in a very, very difficult situation… This was a situation that paramedics don’t find themselves in all of the time, thank goodness, but it was a situation where they were held up with frontline police with hundreds of people outside…. That’s not the sort of scenes we want to see in NSW and it’s not the way in which our paramedics now frontline emergency workers should be treated.
Continue reading…Police charged the 16-year-old after interviewing him in hospital yesterday over Monday’s alleged attack on a bishop in Wakeley. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNSW health minister recognises work of paramedics during Wakeley riotNew South Wales health minister Ryan Park has recognised the paramedics who responded to the Wakeley stabbing incident on Monday night and the subsequent riot outside the church.I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the very brave paramedics that extracted [the alleged offender] out that night.They were in a very, very difficult situation… This was a situation that paramedics don’t find themselves in all of the time, thank goodness, but it was a situation where they were held up with frontline police with hundreds of people outside…. That’s not the sort of scenes we want to see in NSW and it’s not the way in which our paramedics now frontline emergency workers should be treated. Continue reading…