The ramping crisis in Queensland hospitals has turned to tragedy with a person reportedly dying on the Gold Coast.
The state opposition revealed in parliament on Wednesday that a person on the Gold Coast waited more than two hours for an ambulance despite suffering from life-threatening sepsis.
According to information provided by paramedics to Shadow Health Minister Ros Bates, the person died 20 minutes after arriving at Gold Coast University Hospital.
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“Sepsis is a life-threatening organ failure so it’s a primary cause of death from infection and the mortality rate is about 40 per cent,” Ms Bates said.