One dead, 12 sick in TB outbreak in SA’s far north
There are now 13 confirmed cases of tuberculosis in the APY Lands, including one death, as high-ranking health figures rush to the area.
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
There are now 13 confirmed cases of tuberculosis in the APY Lands, including one death, as high-ranking health figures rush to the area.
SA Health faces further upheavals with a key executive leaving and a major agency being scrapped.
Women’s and Children’s Hospital boss Lindsey Gough has quit her senior position, finishing in a week and sparking a scramble to find a replacement.
There have been nearly 80,000 “incidents” at SA hospitals in just the past 12 months – on top of four other scandals, some that ended with people dying.
SA Labor leader Peter Malinauskas says he will sack the administrators of SA Health’s biggest network if elected Premier – but the government says it’s an ‘empty’ promise.
Capacity at pubs, clubs and restaurants will be lifted to 75 per cent – and churches and cinemas allowed to operate at 100 per cent – just in time for Easter.
Explosive claims sick or injured kids were left in ramped ambulances at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital have been flatly denied.
Two elderly patients died on Friday night because of ambulance delays, the union says, as it calls for the incidents to be referred to the Coroner.
SA’s top psychiatrists have warned “something bad is going to happen” because the state’s stretched mental health system is ready to collapse.
A “mouth-dropping” Australian-first urgent mental health care unit in Adelaide has the eyes of the nation on it.
When Advertiser journalist Elizabeth Henson took her mum to the emergency department, it was during a “busy shift”. It cost her mother’s life.
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