Sunday February 11, 2007

My first week on duty as a coordinator

I have decided to blog another week on duty for the Freewheelers blood bikes. This time however I am not riding, I am coordinating.

Starting on Monday evening my job for the next week will be to take phone calls from hospitals needing our service. When I receive a request I then have to decide which of the three on-duty riders should make the delivery and track the progress until the rider is safely home.

Each job request results in at least 4 phone calls and a busy week can be 50 or more requests. I predict I won't be getting much sleep!

I will be keeping my eyes out for the most unusual call of the week. When I was on riding duty a couple of weeks ago I reckon I got the prize as I was called out to do an urgent transfer of rabies vaccine from Exeter to Bristol. Given that the UK doesn't have rabies this is a pretty unusual request. It turns out that a woman had been bitten by a dog while in India and needed to continue her vaccinations once she was back in the UK.

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Posted by mikebelch ( Feb 11 2007, 09:24:47 AM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]