The East of England Ambulance Service has launched a new recruitment drive to get another 200 student paramedics.

Jason Gillingham works as a manager for them, he told Heart a little bit about what these students will experience. 

East of England Ambulance Recruitment Drive

MEGAN STRATTON

Heart's been told Paramedics are nearly twice as likely to get Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, as soldiers coming back from war.

Dean Stuart's a paramedic working out of Chelmsford, and last summer he got called out to a job that changed his life forever.

Listen to his interview here. 

PTSD In Paramedics

Following the deaths of 39 people believed to be Vietnamese nationals - who were discovered a lorry trailer in Grays, Thuy Bui, the secretary for the Vietnamese Association in the UK - has told Heart that human traffickers often prey on the poorest communities in Vietnam.

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