Paramedic suspended after he played on swing next to hanging victim

A student paramedic who played on a swing next to a suicide victim in a children’s park has been suspended for 12 months. Michal Szczytynski was training with the East of England Ambulance Service when he was called to the tragic scene on 10 August 2017. Szczytynski cut down the dead person from the set of swings then carried on swinging himself as a shocked colleague and police officer looked on. The Health Care and Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) was…