00:00After her husband Alan showed symptoms of a stroke, Bridget Haig took him to the Lyle
00:08McEwen Hospital.
00:09An already stressful trip to the ED, made worse by a 15 hour wait.
00:14I was just so stressed and so upset, I just didn't know which way to turn.
00:20An experience the hospital agrees wasn't good enough.
00:24Long waits in our waiting room is not what we want for any of our consumers.
00:28We clearly could have done much better in this case.
00:30After the delay, Alan ended up at the Royal Adelaide Hospital with a suspected brain tumour.
00:35One week on, he's still there, undergoing further testing.
00:39The Lyle McEwen Hospital apologised for the delay in treatment.
00:43The state's opposition says South Australians are fed up.
00:46People are sick of waiting.
00:47They're sick of waiting on the ramps, they're sick of waiting in our emergency departments
00:52and they're sick of this government failing to deliver on their number one election commitment.
00:56Data from the Australian Medical Association suggests the situation Alan and Bridget faced
01:01isn't unique, showing only 38% of urgent SA patients were seen within 30 minutes in
01:07last financial year.
01:09That figure is a long way from the national average of 60% and shows a 27% drop on the
01:15same figure from a decade ago.
01:17That's why we are investing in our healthcare system, to make sure that there is more capacity
01:22for increasing numbers of patients who are coming to receive treatment in our emergency
01:27departments.
01:28An investment which can't come soon enough in a system under pressure.
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