Medical Centre Fails to Cope Ambulance Ramping
A Health has made a number of efforts to keep the beds free
at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide. But, as per a recent report, all
efforts are likely failing since the problem of ramping was again seen at the
hospital.
The scenario has been highlighted by the ambulance officers'
union. It has been told that Wednesday, a back-up of three ambulances was
caused at times due to blockages in the emergency department. SA Health has
also agreed that the medical centre has seen lengthy delays.
However, the South Australian Government has affirmed that
health specialist Dr. Mark Monaghan's reviews all 52 recommendations.
The report finds that a patient had to wait outside A&E
in an ambulance for more than an hour. And it was indeed an extremely busy day
as a total of 215 patients had been seeking to be admitted in the emergency
ward.
Therefore only, a spokeswoman said that Flinders is one of
the hospitals performing best on the grounds of turnaround time. "There's
been a significant improvement in that in this last year. In fact yesterday the
average turnaround time was 23 minutes, with the agreed level being 30
minutes", Belinda Moyes, the spokeswoman was quoted as saying.
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