A PETITION will be circulated to businesses and organisations in the new rear in a push for Orange to secure more paramedics.
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Orange City Council resolved to support a petition to be distributed throughout the city at a meeting where an emotional Cr Glenn Taylor spoke of his personal experience with ambulance delays.
However, with council’s last meeting of the year to be held next Thursday, spokesman Nick Redmond said council had decided to put all of its energy into launching the petition at its first meeting of 2013.
“We feel it will have much more impetus if we launch the petition at that time,” he said.
Orange paramedics have met with mayor John Davis and Member for Orange Andrew Gee to outline their concerns over staffing numbers, saying Orange’s levels have remained virtually static for the last 20 years.
Paramedic union representative Ian Spurway outlined to Mr Davis and Mr Gee the challenges facing paramedics whose workload has grown due to a significant increase in population, the closure of small hospitals in the area and the need for additional transfers to the new Orange hospital, the largest in the region.