Five new ambulance stations, including a new city headquarters, will be funded in this week’s state budget.

Five new state-of-the-art ambulance stations, including a new city ambulance headquarters, have been promised in this week’s state budget.

Five new state-of-the-art ambulance stations will be funded in Thursday’s state budget, including a new state health-control headquarters to combat hospital ramping and waiting times.

Another four stations will be completely rebuilt, and 10 will be upgraded under a total $187.2m infrastructure spend.

Making the announcement on SAAS Appreciation Day, Premier Peter Malinauskas said the funding was in line with Labor’s election commitments and will provide “state-of-the-art” workplaces for paramedics.

“This significant new investment will replace ageing and inadequate infrastructure that our ambos have been putting up with for too long,” he said.

“With our first budget, we begin the process of fixing our state’s ramping crisis.”

As well as the new CBD SA Ambulance Service headquarters, to be built at a cost of $120m, a second ambulance station will be co-located in the city, and new stations will be placed at Norwood, Woodville, Golden Grove and Edwardstown.

$187.2m has been confirmed in tomorrow’s state budget going towards state’s ambulance system. It includes a $120m new CBD headquarters. Picture: Ollie Haig/Nine News Adelaide

Stations at Campbelltown, Mount Barker, Gawler and Victor Harbor will be rebuilt, while upgrades will take place at Marion, Elizabeth, Whyalla, Mount Gambier, Keith, Mallala, Goolwa, Wallaroo and Aldinga.

Opposition Leader David Speirs said ramping would worsen over the coming months.

“Labor said they had a silver bullet for this, there is no silver bullet and unfortunately it is going to be South Australians who suffer,” he said.

“They are walking away from those election promises and my heart goes out to South Australians who need to use an ambulance and our paramedics who are at the front line who I hope will be able to get a little bit of respite over the winter period.”

The ambulance union, which has been criticised for its silence since the state election, has vowed to hold the state government to account if pre-election health promises are not delivered.

Ambulance Employees Association SA secretary Leah Watkins said she was confident the commitments made by the Labor government were sincere.

“A lot of our ambos were sceptical, that those were political promises being made and that there was a risk that they were going to renege on that if they were successful in getting into government,” Ms Watkins said.

“However, everything that we have seen is that they are steadfastly committed to the commitments they have made and they’re taking action now.”

Labor’s health-strong election campaign also promised an extra 350 paramedics and ambulance officers would be hired to fix ramping over four years.

Paramedic and president of the union, Lynsey Irwin, also vowed the union would hold Labr to account.

“It’s a different feeling on the road now, because we know that there is work being done, that our voices are being heard, we have a seat at the table, not only are we being listened to but those conversations are very engaged and respectful,” she said.

”We would absolutely have zero hesitaiton in holding them to account in the same or similar way we have done in the past with other governments.”