Health staff are being asked to cut their leave short with emergency calls up by almost 1000 a day.

Queensland is yet to reach its anticipated peak of the current coronavirus wave but paramedics say they’re already short-staffed to handle the current load.

United Workers Union National Ambulance Coordinator Fiona Scanlan told Neil Breen calls about complications with coronavirus are flooding the system.

“When I last spoke to you, we were sitting around the 3,000 a day call mark and now it’s up closer to 4,000. It’s 3,900 calls a day going into our operation centres,” she said.

“That’s a lot of work for our people taking those calls and the people responding to them.”

She said it highlights the need for an overhaul of how the health system is planned and funded.

“The Ambulance Service is at the front end of it.

“Everything that’s not working in the health system falls back down onto them.”

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