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The SA Ambulance Service is planning for “extreme demand surges” and “high levels of triple zero calls” once state borders reopen on Tuesday, with the State Government announcing it will recruit up to 100 university students as a “standby workforce” to drive ambulances.
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Paramedics have voted overwhelmingly to accept a State Government deal that will see an extra 74 paramedics trained and employed and some roster reforms.
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The parents of a 14-year-old who collapsed were forced to drive the boy to hospital themselves because there no ambulances available, while a crew had to be sent 80 kilometres from Port Augusta to a Whyalla patient suffering a seizure, according to the latest delays revealed by paramedics.
A bitter industrial dispute between paramedics and the State Government is over, with the union agreeing in principle to the latest offer which will see an extra 74 paramedics trained and employed and some roster reforms.
UPDATED: A 10-year-old child in a “life-threatening” emergency was forced to wait 23 minutes for an ambulance to arrive on the weekend, the paramedics’ union has revealed, as Adelaide hospitals struggled with overcrowding and ambulance ramping.
Paramedics say they’ve been “abandoned” by the Health Minister and are calling on him to “stand up to” the Treasurer to demand more money to fix ramping, after yet another day of ambulances and patients being forced into lengthy waits outside hospital emergency departments.
Health Minister Stephen Wade has hinted that a reconfiguration of the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s emergency department and ambulance bay may be necessary following “rampant” ambulance ramping.
