00:00Flanked by two of five health portfolio ministers, the Premier and co all smiles for works underway at Bunbury Regional Hospital costing $471 million.
00:15So this redevelopment is incredibly important for delivering access to health care for Western Australians here in regional Bunbury and the areas that surround it.
00:23They were there to celebrate a construction milestone but were pressed on new figures showing ambulance ramping in August hit a record high, breaking the previous record set in July.
00:35The Premier says WA's ramping issues are not unique.
00:39I sat up last night, I googled South Australia ramping, you see headlines, crisis, record numbers of ramping, New South Wales ramping, you see record numbers of call outs for ambulance services, Queensland ramping.
00:52This is the line of hours ambulances spent ramped outside of WA hospitals dating back to July 2015.
01:01It spiked around here because of the pandemic but as you can see it's taken off again in the past two months, soaring to a record high.
01:11Ramping is always worse in winter. We know the flu has an impact on ramping numbers so ramping will go down as we move into summer.
01:20If it doesn't then we're facing an entirely different scenario, one that we haven't had to deal with before.
01:25The opposition wants money to be diverted to throw at the problem.
01:29People ask me, well what would you do? I tell you what I would do, I tell you what our team would do, we would scrap the Burrswood Park racetrack today.
01:38Mr Zemplis declaring he'd take the $217 million marked for the controversial racetrack precinct in Burrswood and put it straight into the hospital system.
01:48A government spokesperson responding saying strong economic management means they can manage multiple projects at the same time.
01:57It's not all that many people do, but a lot of people say anything, but there's a lot of reasons they don't have to deal with of a very difficult problem but the proportion of things have to deal with it.
02:05So, more than we would have to deal with this in a long way, and then we're not going to deal with it.
02:09We wouldn't do that. It's not about a problem.
02:13We would have to deal with that.
02:14Our plan of war is that we would have to deal with this sort of policy and to make it more difficult.
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