Diesel fuel dripped through ceilings at the 15 William Street building in the CBD on Tuesday.
WorkSafe has threatened legal action if the ambulance service does not quickly address the worker shortages that are damaging the health of staff and potentially threatening public safety.
Ambulance Victoria has urged the public to call triple zero only in an emergency after the number of COVID-19 cases in hospitals doubled in a month.
Ten Colac Area Health staff members,who worked in other sections of the hospital,attended the urgent care clinic during the visit and sat in the waiting room.
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.