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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

‘Covid has broken us’: warnings of a mass resignation among Victorian paramedics

A Victorian paramedic retrieving equipment from an ambulance
Of the 348 Ambulance Victoria paramedics surveyed, only 42% reported being satisfied with their jobs – down from 62% in 2020. Photograph: Luis Ascui/AAP

Bill Briggs had worked as a paramedic for more than three decades when, during Victoria’s second extended Covid lockdown, he “lost the plot”.

“I was just plodding along, doing the job, not getting any complaints from anyone and then I had a disagreement with another paramedic and I just exploded, which is not like me at all,” Briggs says.

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