Premier calls on feds to help fix system in âcrisisâ
Ambulance ramping has been an issue across the country, including Queensland, Tasmania and South Australia. Picture: Chris Kidd
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by James Hall
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The Queensland Premier revealed her plea to federal counterparts to help solve the chronic issue of hospital bed shortages and ambulance ramping after reports a man waited 26 hours in an emergency department for treatment.
Neville Clayton died less than a week after he endured several heart attacks amid a harrowing wait at Ipswich Hospital that the opposition described as âabsolutely tragicâ.
The manâs son, former nurse Anthony Clayton, shared his fatherâs story in the hope of forcing change to a health sector plagued by an undersupply of hospital beds and common anecdotes of paramedics waiting for hours to admit patients to emergency departments.