"Qualified" is a bureaucratic designation, a piece of paper signed by a professional paper-pusher.
"Competent" means "able to do the job" .
This paramedic was clearly competent, regardless of any piece of paper, or lack thereof.
It goes to scope of practice. EMT’s have a limited scope of practice. Do something beyond that and you are subject to discipline.
The article is wrong. Snake anti venom is not carried on an ambulance especially for something as exotic as a mamba which isn’t found in the wild in Kentucky.
Any decent man would walk in and resign to find better work. And bad mouth them for years.