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The outgoing head of the SA Ambulance Service is confident South Australia would be “well placed” to cope with a large COVID outbreak such as that now experienced by New South Wales, despite record ramping outside Adelaide hospitals.
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A patient suffering a stroke was forced to wait more than 40 minutes for an ambulance last night, while another person with chest pain waited an hour during “a critical lack of resources”, according to paramedics.
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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.
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.
UPDATED: The ambulance ramping crisis is now affecting children, who have for the first time been left parked outside the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, a parliamentary committee has heard this morning.
The South Australian Employment Tribunal has ordered the SA Ambulance Employees Association into mediation with the government to resolve an ongoing industrial dispute over ambulance resourcing and rostering reform.
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.
