It’s been revealed that hours after Georgina Wild died alone on her couch waiting for an ambulance to arrive, an elderly man passed away from a suspected heart attack after waiting hours for paramedics.

It comes following the announcement that the state government is installing two senior health officers and two police officers at St John headquarters to address concerns around ambulance delays.

6PR and Nine News reporter Jerrie Demasi broke the news on Wednesday night, telling Gareth Parker on 6PR Breakfast that this was another case where a patient was waiting hours for an ambulance to arrive. 

“The time that the ambulance should have arrived for priority three was an hour,” she said.

“The ambulance didn’t actually get there for two hours.”

New details have also emerged surrounding the death of the 80-year-old woman who suffered a suspected heart attack while waiting for an ambulance. 

“There seems to be a lot of little things that could have been done to ease the load that weren’t,” Demasi stated.

“Five deaths is what it’s taken for these DFES officers to be forced onto the road,”

“Who knows why this provision was never activated in the first place.”

A report into WA’s ambulance service will be handed down on Thursday. 

Tap PLAY to hear more about the latest incident related to the ambulance ramping crisis.

Senior police and doctors will watch over St John headquarters to manage a system in crisis, in a major ambulance overhaul.

The intervention comes after Nine News exposed a grandmother’s preventable death and tonight we can reveal, another life’s been lost. @JerrieDemasi #9News pic.twitter.com/okU6hDgjRS

— 9News Perth (@9NewsPerth) May 18, 2022