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In the past year, around 23,000 Australians a day presented to public hospital emergency departments.(AAP) Source: AAP

Ambulances are not coping with the increasing workload. Aging population, the chronically ill and the flu season are the reasons ambulances are unable to respond to most urgent calls within the prescribed 10 minutes. In some emergency departments patients have to wait up to 1 hour.

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By Vladilir Dubossarsky

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Ambulances are not coping with the increasing workload. Aging population, the chronically ill and the flu season are the reasons ambulances are unable to respond to most urgent calls within the prescribed 10 minutes. In some emergency departments patients have to wait up to 1 hour.

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