Adelaide Man Dies Waiting For Ambulance

The man, a father of two, suffering from chest pain called triple-0 at 5:15 pm on Monday after pulling over on Anzac Highway at Plympton. Tragically, he died there.

While experiencing chest pain, a man dialled triple zero, but the ambulance didn’t show up until 30 minutes later. Cardiac arrest caused his death. The man was declared unconscious and given CPR 35 minutes later, according to the state’s Ambulance Employees Association.
The first paramedic arrived at 6:01 p.m., 42 minutes after the initial triple-0 call, according to the union, after the case was raised to a priority one. 35 minutes later, according to the union, onlookers discovered the man was motionless and started doing CPR on him. The patient, though, was unable to be revived. On Monday afternoon, a representative for SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) reported a high volume of triple-0 calls.

Leah Watkins from the union claimed that the man had “fallen victim” to the SA Health system’s “crisis.” Ms Watkins said, “We’ve got to be able to do more than what we are now, because we can’t have this situation where people are dying waiting for an ambulance,” Craig McArdle was one of the bystanders who tried to revive the man by using a defibrillator from a nearby pub. South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas said the circumstances of the case were “beyond tragic”, and that an investigation would be conducted.