Members of the public had to come to the aid of two female paramedics who were set upon in an alleged assault in Mornington on Saturday morning.

A veteran paramedic was hospitalised after she was allegedly kicked in the stomach by a 58-year-old Seaford man during the random attack about 11.30am, which also left her colleague – only a few months into the job – shaken.

Ambulance Victoria Union secretary Danny Hill says there is an assault on a paramedic every 50 hours. Credit: Scott McNaughton

The paramedics were walking along Main Street in Mornington when they tried to de-escalate a dispute between the 58-year-old and another person. This prompted him to cross the road and allegedly attack the pair, kicking the senior paramedic in stomach. She was being assessed in hospital on Satur

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