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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.
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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.
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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.
EXCLUSIVE | A group of 28 “angry and frustrated” emergency specialist doctors from the Royal Adelaide Hospital has written to SA Health lamenting an ongoing lack of services and treatment delays for mental health patients, suggesting a Royal Commission might be the only way to fix the broken system.
The Health Minister has disputed doctors’ claims that the State Government didn’t properly consult them before rolling out a strategy to divert patients from public hospitals as ambulance ramping reached record highs.
Today, readers comment on the closure of 60 public hospital beds, while ambulance ramping outside reaches record heights.
