Health

Horror night: Wollongong ambulance patients left waiting on stretchers for more than eight hours

Kate McIlwain
Updated April 21 2022 - 7:07am, first published April 20 2022 - 11:30am
Ambulances stuck outside Wollongong Hospital on Monday night. Picture: Illawarra-Shoalhaven branch Health Services Union.
Ambulances stuck outside Wollongong Hospital on Monday night. Picture: Illawarra-Shoalhaven branch Health Services Union.

Patients at Wollongong hospital were left waiting on stretchers in corridors for up to eight hours on Monday night, according to paramedics, who have again raised the alarm about the dangerous state of the region's emergency health system.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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