The runaway alligator and other bizarre calls that hampered UK ambulance dispatchers

The runaway alligator and other bizarre calls that hampered UK ambulance dispatchers

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LONDON (AP)  — If your pet alligator escapes, don’t call for an ambulance — unless it has sunk its teeth into someone.
That’s the message from the Welsh Ambulance Service in a plea to get people to stop phoning 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 — whether from paramedics or a hospital doctor. But the ambulance service said 15% of its 426,000 calls last year — 175 a day — were not urgent. Some weren’t even health-rel …

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