About 90% of the total calls received in the EMS of Cape Town reportedly go unattended. Reason? Severe employee scarcity.
With even more workers rethinking about a career change, the emergency services here are trailing down in providing services.A state Senate study shows that workers are least motivated to take up a job in the emergency medical services of Georgia. The lack of medical reimbursements and poor wages provided to the workers act as stumbling blocks in attracting dedicated workers to the job. Due to this, the needs of the critically illed patients are being neglected, leaving the patients’ conditions in a pathetic state.
Two of the hospitals in Athens were compelled to sell off their ambulance services to the private companies.
But state committee reports do not give a satisfactory picture about the private sectors services either.
'It was with great disappointment that I learned how difficult our state Medicaid and federal Medicare systems have made basic reimbursement for providing emergency services,' state Sen. Ronnie Chance said in the report.
What do the EMS workers have to say about the Senate report?
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'Our hope is that our lawmakers can use the study sort of as a reminder to improve the system over the next several years,'said Courtney Terwilliger, chairman of the Georgia Association of Emergency Medical Services, who testified before the state committee.
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