Adverse outcomes from the Ardern Government’s vaccine mandate were quite predictable to anyone paying attention, and of course, concerns about critical services being interrupted were swept aside by the MSM. Their devotion to paying homage to their piper takes precedence over the sort of thing many of us regard as the necessities of life.
St John Ambulance knew on the 29th of November that some staff would leave rather than take the Pfizer jabs but were upbeat about any hint of a probable shortage and Stuff concurred. It won’t be a problem, they said.
“St John is confident it can continue to deliver all its services after 314 paid staff and volunteers left their roles as a result of the Covid-19 vaccination mandates.
Of these, there were 20 full-time paid emergency ambulance staff, 59 volunteer emergency ambulance personnel, six paid employees with non-patient facing roles and 229 volunteers in non-patient facing roles.”
Stuff
But this weekend a shortage of ambulance staff did become a problem, and 5 Auckland ambulances could not be staffed, with the number of ambulances off the road expected to increase to 8 by Saturday night.
“St John was unable to operate at least five of its Auckland ambulances on Friday night amid significant and ongoing staff shortages.
Stuff can reveal St John management on Saturday asked paramedics in the South Island if they could fly up to the super-city to help as it faced being eight ambulances down that evening.”
Anyone else irritated by the “Stuff can reveal” phrase? It suggests we are about to be let into a little secret, a media scoop if you like. In this case, it reeks of government propaganda. Newshub uses the phrase; perhaps TVNZ also, I can’t be sure. TVNZ is not particularly attentive to the facts, making it hard to watch. So I don’t.
Aucklanders involved in a car accident or experiencing a heart attack face the real possibility of premature death if St John cannot provide timely medical intervention. There is no evidence that this has happened in Auckland since the end of November, but the longer the staffing shortages keep ambulances out of service the more the risk increases.
Naturally, Stuff does not point out that the vaccine mandate is the reason why they lost critical staff. That would make the PM and her health advisers look bad.
“Auckland Central territory manager Braden Stark said the weekend staff shortage in Auckland was partly caused by staff on sick leave or annual leave.”
Didn’t St John do well to replace lost qualified and highly trained staff in less than three weeks? Or did they?
“First Union transport, logistics and manufacturing organiser Faye McCann said staff shortages were an ongoing issue in Auckland, and it was leaving staff burnt out.
Wearing PPE in the summer heat was tiring, especially given the high workload and short staffing, she said.
Some staff have tried to apply for secondments in the past for a break, but have been denied due to the short staffing which forces them to either leave Auckland or leave St John entirely for a break.
“Alternative leave is also often denied even when applied for well in advance with staff having to find their own cover.
“St John needs to address the short staffing before the issue becomes worse, many staff are already at breaking point.”
Stuff
Settle down Ms McCann, St John have come up with a very workable solution to their staffing shortage which the PM will undoubtedly approve of: no staff requests for leave will be approved until staffing numbers have built up again.
Thank you St John for fixing your own problem. It now remains for this remedy to be applied to staff shortages in critical hospital services like doctors, nurses, radiographers (you name it); and teachers and other labour forces adversely affected by these naughty people refusing to take the medicine everyone knows is good for us all.
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