Premier and part-time Health Minister Jeremy Rockliff has shown that he has given up when it comes to fixing Tasmania's health crisis.
In Parliament today Labor Leader Rebecca White highlighted that a young women spent seven hours with a suspected spinal injury waiting for an ambulance to take her to hospital.
It was also revealed that ambulance ramping in Tasmania is so rife that Ambulance Tasmania staff are being specifically rostered to work on the ramp.
Instead of outlining how he intends to fix the system, the Premier deflected to blaming the previous government for their almost decade in government.
Since the Liberal Government has been in office, ambulance response times have increased by more than 25 per cent.
Ambulances are constantly ramped and paramedics have had to fight to be heard about the conditions they are working in and have their wages increased.
It was only under pressure from Labor and HACSU that the jobs of 97 paramedics on short-term contracts were saved and made permanent.
Our frontline workers do an incredible job to work under the pressure they do in a system that is clearly broken.
Tasmanians are losing faith that this Premier can, in his own words, "walk and chew gum at the same time" and fix a health system in crisis.
Instead of spending a billion dollars on a stadium in Hobart, the government should invest this money on fixing Tasmania's health system so that they can receive the care when and where they need it.
Anita Dow MP
Shadow Minister for Health
