The ambulance whose back wheel fell off in Dundalk earlier this month
Ambulance staff have been asked to check the nuts on the wheels of their vehicles before starting each shift, it has emerged.
An internal HSE memo was sent to workers recently giving detailed instruction on how to carry out the new required safety check.
The document, dated Friday February 21st, was drafted just two weeks before the wheel came off an ambulance at the Xerox junction in Dundalk, shortly after it had brought a patient to hospital. It is understood the memo was only issued, however, after that incident.
Staff are said to be angry about the new measures, insisting they are paid to be paramedics and not mechanics.
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