PARAMEDICS dedicate their lives to helping others, and this year their efforts in the Bathurst community have been recognised with an Australia Day Achievement Medallion.
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The award, introduced for the first time this year by council, recognises those whose hard work and contributions have shaped the Bathurst community.
Station Officer, Matthew Bray, said he and his team were both proud and humbled to be among the inaugural recipients.
Officer Bray said often the work of paramedics goes under the radar, and he said it was lovely for his team, and on a broader level paramedics everywhere to be recognised.
He said he and Kathy Golledge had the honour of attending the Australia Day awards to receive the Australia Day Achievement medallion.
In accepting the award he took the opportunity to thank his staff for their continued hard work and efforts.
"We do an often thank less job to assist members of the community in their hour of need and I believe everyone completes their duties with integrity and professionalism.
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"We have endured a tumultuous year that was 2020, what with bushfires and drought at the beginning of the year and then onto the COVID 19 pandemic that saw us working under extreme conditions and with multiple and often daily changes to our practice, everyone still turned up day in and day out to assist the community.
"This award recognises everyone's efforts," he said.
NSW Ambulance (Bathurst Division) was one of nine Public Service Medallions to be awarded on Australia Day with other recipients including Bathurst Seymour Centre, Bernadette Sinclair, Darren Sturgiss, David Sherley, Donna Sollorz, Eglinton Rural Fire Service, Gwendoline Laird and Jan Hudson.
The awards were presented by members of the Australia Day Committee, Peter Cosgrove and Jeff Cox.
A new award, introduced in 2021, Bathurst Council's Public Service Medal recognises members of the public whose hard work have benefitted the community.
A spokesperson for council said in 2021 bushfires, drought and COVID-19 saw multiple changes in day to day practise and proved challenging on a number of levels and those receiving this award had gone above and beyond for their community.
