How three-year-old Blake saved his baby brother’s life
Brotherly love runs deep in this Adelaide family – find out how three-year-old Blake saved the life of his baby brother Max.
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Brotherly love runs deep in this Adelaide family – find out how three-year-old Blake saved the life of his baby brother Max.
A prominent SA Health role has been filled by a senior public servant who was at the forefront of a cross-border Covid fight during the height of the pandemic.
The opening of the new facility near the CBD is tipped to ease pressure on the state’s stressed health system.
More South Australians are being treated in hospital for Covid as a new wave of the virus continues to grip the state.
With 278,000 vaccine doses waiting in the fridge, South Aussies have been told to get jabbed now or run a crazy risk when the state opens up in five weeks.
Thousands of students and teachers will start getting the Covid-19 vaccine at school from today to tackle sluggish jab rates. It comes as Labor proposes a boost to mental health resources in schools.
Allied health workers across nine major Adelaide hospitals, including the RAH, are striking as they demand double the pay increase on offer.
The ambulance union has made a list of 20 demands to fix the service, as the second death blamed on delays is revealed in as many days.
Vomiting uncontrollably, a “fit and active” great-grandfather was forced to wait five hours for an ambulance. His son says the delay killed him.
A top surgeon has walked away from SA’s public health system, lashing out at chronic understaffing he says is leading to avoidable deaths.
More than 8000 South Aussies longing to come home are waiting for their exemption applications to be processed, as the plan to open the borders for Christmas appears in doubt.
As debate rages on whether the $1.95bn Women’s and Children’s Hospital is big enough, the Health Minister and his shadow are busy arguing over the definition of “sick kid”.
Three Adelaide mums say the mental health system failed their suicidal teenage sons and are furious extra crisis care beds aren’t being added to the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
Experts say digital technologies can cure both patients and our overloaded hospital system. Watch a full replay of the panel discussion on the future of SA’s health network.
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