{"id":178545,"date":"2025-09-29T22:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178545\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:11:08","slug":"ambulance-bodys-overnight-warning-to-patients-in-aussie-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178545\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulance body&#8217;s overnight warning to patients in Aussie capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> residents have been urged to only visit emergency rooms or contact ambulances when facing life-threatening situations, with the city&#8217;s hospitals experiencing &#8220;high demand&#8221; overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Ambulance Victoria put the call out on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s critical that we all do what we can to save our paramedics \u2013 and our hospital emergency departments \u2013 for life-threatening emergencies,&#8221; the post read.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/336b1384-8c69-4f83-9544-8928157542a5.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Melbourne hospitals experienced high demand overnight. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When emergency departments are busy, beds are allocated to patients with life-threatening emergencies. Other patients go into the waiting room, and you can expect a delay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Calling an ambulance will not help you get seen quicker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ambulance Victoria said there were other options for people who needed urgent healthcare for non-life-threatening issues.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The Nurse-on-Call hotline can be reached 24 hours a day on 1300 60 60 24, or people can visit their local GP or pharmacist.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Help us keep our paramedics and first responders on the road for our sickest patients and save paramedics for life-threatening emergencies,&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne residents have been urged to only visit emergency rooms or contact ambulances when facing life-threatening situations, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-178545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}