1 dead, 3 overdoses at the same location, as VicPd exhaust their Naloxone supply
Victoria police responded to 5 overdose calls in 12 hours, exhausting their supply of Naloxone.
VicPd say the calls started coming in at about 8pm Thursday night, with 3 calls happening at the same location at the same time just after 5 am Friday morning.
One person could not be revived and died during a call in the 700-block Cormorant Street. A call in the 400-block of Swift Street involved 2 people trying to save another who had no pulse and wasn't breathing. CPR was started and officers administered naloxone, which worked immediately.
Spokesman Bowen Osoko says just after 5 this morning emergency responders were called to the intersection of Pandora and Amelia St. to Street to help 2 people who were overdosing. It didn't end there:
"While this group is working on these 2 people who were down with the overdoses, a third person went down with an overdoses literally a very short distance away. And so they shifted their attentions to this third person. And again you saw the administration of Naloxone, rescue breathing, that process.
Osoko says it was a particularly stressful night. But as officers went for a debrief over coffee someone called to complain that the officers weren't working.