In March, Jenna saw a traffic accident on the streets of Melbourne.
A homeless man named Will was knocked down by a passing car. He lay motionless and seemed to be seriously injured.
The homeless man, alone, seemed to sleep all the time, presumably without family and friends.
If there's no one to help him, he'll probably die in the street like this!
The kind Jenna thought here, immediately picked up the mobile phone, dialed the Australian emergency help phone-000.
However, Will did not want to follow an ambulance to the hospital for treatment. Jenna was surprised at the time, but after confirming that Will's injury was okay, she left.
In July, Jenna received an unexpected call. The request from (Australian Receivables Limited), an Australian-based debt company, outraged Jenna.
They asked Jenna to pay $1200 for an ambulance and a phone call of $000.
Jenna finally understood why Will didn't want to go to the hospital-he knew he was going to pay a hefty fee. Jenna told Current Affair that it would be inhumane to charge a homeless person such a high fee.
To make matters worse, the company has repeatedly dialed Jenna's private number, to make the Australian girl, who makes privacy more important than anything, collapse even more.
Jenna is worried about more than that: "my name has been documented by debt and I don't know if it will have an impact on credit ratings."
In response, (Ambulance Victoria) has apologized to Jenna and said the system will be optimized in the future to stop charging dialers mechanically.
Even so, partners in Australia have to carefully dial $000.
You know, an ambulance in Australia costs a minute, and the cost of a single ambulance in each region is as follows.
You can see that each single charge is basically close to $1000.
If it is charged so that it is also recorded by debt, it may also have an impact on the credit rating of the individual, and it is not worth the loss or gain!