Today minutes before H/T in Ball one of our own went down, and stayed down.
Great concern for the player, while he was being cared for on the ground for 65 minutes.
It took that long for the first ambulance to arrive, where the Ambos took over and took all the care necessary to put him a stretcher and finally place him in the second carrier and finally move him off the field and to hospital at a snails pace.
This was exactly two hours from the time he was injured! I fear the worst.
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Not sure what you mean here
agree
Injury in SG ball
Player on the field stayed down for an hour and a bit
Looked very bad
Apparently it was a dislocated knee cap that wouldn't go back into place
Let's hope he is ok.
Life threatening situations take priority ie cardiac arrest, drowned child, overdoses etc. Ambos taking 45 minutes to attend for a dislocated knee cap? Relax, the ambos do a great job and have it tough enough as it is.
Footballers are not more important than anyone else when it comes to medical care.
As someone who used to work for NSW Ambulance, I have some insight into how resources are allocated. Crews are dispatched based on severity. 1A is the most severe, which is cardiac arrest, near death cases. A dislocated kneecap is low on the severity scale. He's not actively dying, he's not at risk of immediate death.
It wouldn't have come through as an elite athlete injury, it would have come through as a lower leg injury.
Fletcher also left the field a minute before this happened. Not sure what injury he has
If it was only a knee injury that is a massive relief.
From my viewpoint it was distant, unable to tell what was happening, and it was two hours till he was driven away,so at the time, I was doing it tough and very very concerned. Sounds like he may be okay. Thank christ.