I saw life and death on my first day in the job

A pupil paramedic attended a location commencement and a decease wrong the archetypal 24 hours of his ambulance enactment placement.

Ben Malone’s ambition to go a paramedic began successful his puerility erstwhile helium witnessed an ambulance unit be to his grandma erstwhile she was having a stroke.

In caller weeks the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service has been nether unit amid an ongoing situation successful the wellness service.

At Northern Ireland's lone paramedic course, students similar Ben are being trained to woody with the aggravated pressures of the job.

Trainee paramedics usage a simulated ambulance conveyance wrong the schoolroom located astatine Ulster University’s Magee campus.

Video journalist: Niall McCracken