{"id":189157,"date":"2025-02-01T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-uk-ambulance-service-pleads-with-public-to-stop-making-non-urgent-calls\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T12:26:01","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-uk-ambulance-service-pleads-with-public-to-stop-making-non-urgent-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-uk-ambulance-service-pleads-with-public-to-stop-making-non-urgent-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic UK ambulance service pleads with public to stop making non-urgent calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic<br \/>\n        Ambulance Service, is the patient breathing? Yes, but we haven\u2019t got any heating due to a power cut, can someone bring us a heater?<br \/>\n    ADVERTISEMENTThe UK&#8217;s ambulance service is pleading with the public to stop phoning them with non-emergencies.With public health services stretched thin in the U.K., there is no shortage of anecdotes about people suffering from true health emergencies who wait hours for medical care \u2014 whether from paramedics or a hospital doctor. But the UK ambulance service said 15% of its 426,000 calls last year \u2014 175 a day \u2014 were not urgent. Some weren&#8217;t even health-related and were far from being matters of life and death.There was a call about a chipped tooth (&#8220;it&#8217;s starting to throb&#8221;), a bloody toe (&#8220;I\u2019ve cut my little nail on the toe and I\u2019ve nipped across the top of it.&#8221;) and a person who stuck their finger in an electrical socket who appeared to be fine (&#8220;I\u2019m worried that I could be electrocuted&#8221;).Then there was the call Emma Worrall took last year that she won&#8217;t soon forget. \u201cI remember saying \u2018alligator?\u2019 and my call-taker supervisor just looked at me and was like, \u2018What is going on in your call?\u2019\u201d Worrall said.As a dispatcher in a busy call centre in Wales, Worrall has to be unflappable, patient and able to efficiently handle the most stressful calls in which a delay of seconds or minutes could be the difference between life and death. She understands that some people have a different gauge of what is life-threatening and an emergency. But it&#8217;s still frustrating when someone phones the emergency number to say they\u2019re locked out of their house and cold or their dog jumped in a river and won\u2019t swim back \u2014 calls she also fielded.\u201cWe just ask everybody to find alternative pathways before phoning for an ambulance,\u201d she said. \u201cThe ambulance service is for those who are experiencing life-threatening problems.\u201dWorrall\u2019s craziest call came one afternoon when a man phoned to say his son\u2019s pet alligator had escaped and was hiding under the sofa.\u201cI asked if he\u2019d been hurt, and he said, no. he was scared,\u201d Worrall recounted.He wanted paramedics to help him corral the toothy reptile.\u201cI told him that we wouldn\u2019t be sending an ambulance for something like that. And he said, \u2018So you\u2019re not going to send me any help until I get bit, is that right?\u2019 I went, \u2018That\u2019s correct.\u2019\u201dThe South Western Ambulance Service in England this week said more than a quarter of the one million-plus calls it fielded last year did not merit sending help.The non-emergency calls included a person looking for assistance in finding their walking stick, a patient who had fallen off a chair \u2014 who was already in the hospital \u2014 and a woman who complained of having a \u201chorrendous nightmare.\u201dEmergency calls \u201care for situations where minutes matter and lives are at risk,\u201d said William Lee, assistant operations director at South Western Ambulance. \u201cInappropriate calls tie up our emergency lines and divert valuable resources away from those in genuine need.&#8221;ADVERTISEMENTWorrall was gobsmacked the aligator caller thought paramedics were the panacea for his problem. When she got off the phone, she took a short break and shared the story with her amused colleagues.\u201cWe did have a little chat about that and, yeah, back to work I went,\u201d she said. \u201cOn to the next call.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Ambulance Service, is the patient breathing? Yes, but we haven\u2019t got any heating due to a power cut, can someone bring us a heater? 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