Patients are being resuscitated in hospital corridors, amid warnings of Victoria’s deteriorating health system.Police say they have transported patients to hospital because there are no ambulances available.Critically ill Victorians are being resuscitated in corridors and overflowing emergency department waiting rooms, as senior medical staff sound the alarm over a further deterioration of conditions in the state’s overcrowded hospitals.
Meanwhile, the number of people in Victoria whose ED stays have blown out beyond a day has more than doubled in the past year, from 222 in the first quarter of 2021, to 521 over the same period this year. Last month, a Mildura man died after what his lawyer Stella Zigouras claimed was a delay to treatment that “arguably cost him his life”.She said the man, who was aged in his 70s, was taken to the Mildura Base Hospital by ambulance on the evening of March 16 with severe leg pain.
“After spending approximately 3.5 hours in our care, a decision was then made to transfer the patient to another airport where they were then flown to Melbourne by air ambulance,” the spokesperson said.
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