Willadvise-
im sorry but I have to recount an incident that happened quite some years ago. I was flying to Sydney from Dubai, and overhead a singapore airlines flight call up and say in broken English that they have a passenger with a serious medical condition and that they request priority. The ATCer said “are you declaring a med1 or Med2 ?” He had no idea what the hell that was and said, “I don’t know request priority” Atc asked the same stupid thing again, he said “ don’t know the passenger is having heart attack” I got on the radio and said “ he is declaring a Med 1” Atc then acknowledged the Med 1 and gave him priority. Myself and the 3 other crew were disgusted with the PENDANTIC attitude of the aussie controllers. I was embarrassed to be an aussie on that flight deck that day.