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Gareth Parker: Excuses for health system failures have gone on for years

Millsy & Karl
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The recriminations are on, with calls for heads to roll, starting with St John Ambulance CEO Michelle Fyfe and Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson after the death of 80-year-old Ashby grandmother Georgina Wild.

Ms Wild was forced to wait 2.5 hours for an ambulance while experiencing chest pains on Sunday night, the second such incident in weeks after months and months of warnings to our health leaders about increased ambulance ramping.

6PR Breakfast host Gareth Parker played back a raft of interviews from January 2021 with health leaders and Premier Mark McGowan that illustrate the shifting explanations and excuses for ramping in the previous 18 months.

“This tragic outcome should’ve been predicted. Tragically Mrs Wild is not the first, she’s exceedingly unlikely to be the last,” Parker said on Wednesday.

Press PLAY below to listen back to their interviews on ambulance ramping and Parker’s views.

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