Ambulance Employees Association (AEA) general secretary, Leah Watkins, said she understood the patient was initially triaged as a priority 3 case, which the South Australian Ambulance Service (SAAS) said had a target response time of 30 minutes.
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Aged care patient dies while “ramped’ for five hours
A patient at a residential aged care home in Adelaide's north-east has died while waiting around five hours for an ambulance, the state's ambulance union says.
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