Violence facing ambulance paramedics prompts SA safety awareness campaign

As paramedics face rising violence, some of it while treating people who have taken the drug ice, authorities will mount a social media and advertising campaign in South Australia aimed at making their work safer.

Health Minister Jack Snelling said SA Ambulance had reported a 74 per cent rise in such incidents in the past three years and there had been 125 already this financial year.

"This new campaign emphasises that every interruption an ambo has to deal with prevents them from helping save someone's life, and that life might be yours," he said.

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