Have a hole in your lung? Need your gall bladder removed when you’re 22 weeks’ pregnant? You might have to wait 21 hours for treatment.
When Tim Vincent, a double-lung transplant recipient, was experiencing the worst pain he says he had felt in his life, he called an Uber instead of an ambulance.
Emergency patients at Blacktown Hospital are facing some of the longest wait times in the state. The median wait time is five hours and 42 minutes, more than two hours longer than the state average, and only one in three patients leaves within four hours.At the most extreme end, one in 10 patients waits more than 21 hours for treatment – 10 hours longer than the state average.
Chantelle Brown waited in the emergency department at Blacktown for five hours before getting an ultrasound that confirmed she needed her gall bladder removed. She said she was ushered back into the waiting room where she had no choice but to sleep on the floor. She was 22 weeks’ pregnant. The emergency department at Blacktown was touted by the Coalition as state-of-the-art when it was unveiled in August 2019 as part of the former government’s $700 million upgrade of the Mount Druitt and Blacktown hospitals.Chantelle Brown, forced to sleep on ED floor while 22-weeks pregnant
The hospital said that in the second quarter of 2023, it had seen more than 5000 category-two triage patients, the highest number of patients in this category since the Bureau of Health Information began reporting. But after getting a bed at Mt Druitt straight away, the 20-year-old was transferred to Blacktown to be admitted for treatment. Richard Mitton expected his daughter would be given a bed immediately but was told there weren’t enough beds, and she was taken to the emergency department.
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