THE QUEENSLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE

摘要

Taprovide the reader with some history as to how the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) arrived at where it is today, we have to take you on a journey back in time. In Queensland, ambulance services began Sept. 12, 1892, when the first meeting of the City Ambulance Transport Brigade was held. Military medic Seymour Warrian formed the brigade following an event he witnessed at the Brisbane (the state capital) exhibition grounds during Show Week in 1892. A horse rider fell and broke his leg, and bystanders walked the rider from the field, exacerbating his injury. The first ambulance station in Queensland operated out of the Brisbane Newspaper Company, and officers on night duty slept on rolls of newspaper on the floor. They had a stretcher, but no vehicle and transported patients on foot.