Under pressure Far North paramedics are being called out about 190 times per day for everything from patient transfers to serious incidents, and numbers are expected to rise. Figures showed the Cairns and Hinterland Local Ambulance Service Network, which takes in the city, Cassowary Coast, Tablelands and Mossman areas, experienced one of the biggest jumps in workload in the state during 2017 with a total of 69,301 call outs. This was a rise of about 4000 – or 8 per cent – on the previous year.
