The state’s work safety regulator has closed the Ballarat Gold Mine to begin investigations into the collapse that saw two workers pinned under fallen rocks.
Kurt Hourigan,a 37-year-old miner from Bruthen in Gippsland,died and his 21-year-old colleague is fighting for his life in hospital after rock collapsed on them 500 metres underground.
Vicki Brady said a “technical incident” early on Friday meant 148 calls weren’t immediately transferred – including one call-out for a person who later died.
A large new study has found higher temperatures are linked with spikes in ambulance callouts.
Distraught relatives and friends of the deceased gathered in the car park near the scene of the tragedy on Wednesday evening.
The Parliamentary Budget Office estimates Victoria spends up to $3.9 million a year on MDMA-related overdoses in ambulances,emergency departments and coronial inquiries.
New research finds gender impacts how bystanders respond to someone having a cardiac arrest – it could be because they are uncomfortable exposing breasts.
Two firefighters are among four people who are in hospital with burns to their upper body following a Dandenong South blaze,which was brought under control late Friday.
Ambulance Victoria has apologised for the delay and has launched a review into the case as the service grapples with sliding response times.
More than 9500 nurses left the state’s health sector in 2022 according to new data,adding to workforce pressure in the health sector.
Leaked emails from Ambulance Victoria reveal that in 43 border towns,the closest ambulance is not always being dispatched.