SA Ambulance Service holds state-wide volunteer recruitment drive

The South Australian Ambulance Service hopes a state-wide recruitment drive will help fill a growing void in its volunteer numbers.

The shortage in rural and remote areas is causing delays and stretching services to breaking point.

While there are 1,100 paid paramedics employed around the state, it is not economical to employ them in smaller regional towns so unpaid workers provide frontline ambulance services.

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