00:02Billions in investment and thousands of new health workers, but ambulances remain ramped outside public hospitals.
00:09My colleagues and I are exhausted, both mentally and physically.
00:13The head of the ambulance union reading a message from a demoralised paramedic,
00:17who says they had to spend six hours caring for a patient outside the Flinders Medical Centre.
00:22We are carrying the weight of patients' cries, the anger and frustration of families.
00:26But the government says the situation is better than when they took office four years ago.
00:30Back then, less than 60% of Priority One ambulance call-outs were met within eight minutes.
00:36Now, according to SA Health figures, more than 72% are.
00:40The odds of them getting that ambulance on time has gone and improved really significantly across the last few years
00:47and is something that we should be really proud of.
00:49The Australian Medical Association agrees, but warns a long-term ramping fix is still years away.
00:55As the Minister says, this is not a victory, and he's absolutely correct,
00:59because this is only one part of the health system issues that we need to look at.
01:04After failing to meet its 2022 election promise to fix the ramping crisis,
01:08Labor has shied away from setting a target on ambulance ramping hours for the next four years.
01:13But that hasn't taken the political heat out of the issue.
01:16They seem to be walking away from their commitment to even fix ramping.
01:20They're now trying to say, oh, well, we're doing everything we can.
01:22On one hand, they're criticising us for not meeting the target we set in the last term of government.
01:27I'll cop that.
01:28And then saying, oh, but you should make that promise again.
01:32I'm not going to do that.
01:33One promise that is on track, a new $9 million ambulance station in Marion,
01:38set to open later this year.
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