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Rencently a man has passed away in the gold coasthospital after being turned down by a NSW hospital here is the story
THE premiers of NSW and Queensland have vowed to get to the bottom of the case of a man who died of a heart attack at a Gold Coast hospital after being turned away from a closer hospital in NSW.
The 48-year-old NSW man died yesterday after a 47-minute ambulance trip from Currumbin in Queensland to the Gold Coast Hospital at Southport.
The Queensland paramedics who picked him up initially wanted to take him to the nearest hospital, 8km away at Tweed Heads in NSW.
they were told Tweed Heads Hospital could not cope so they took the patient to the Gold Coast Hospital across the border, 22km away.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said it took 47 minutes from the time the man was first seen by paramedics to when they delivered him to the hospital, where he died of a cardiac arrest shortly after his arrival.
"We contacted the Tweed hospital, the closest most appropriate facility, and they advised that they were on redirection and couldn't accept the patient," the spokeswoman said yesterday.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma today expressed his condolences to the man's family, saying a full investigation had begun to get to the bottom of the matter.
"There are conflicting accounts as to what exactly did happen," Mr Iemma said.
"I'm advised that Tweed is the nearest hospital but there is some issue as to whether it was the Gold Coast hospital because the ambulance service is a Queensland ambulance service."
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said the state's hospitals did not refuse access to patients whose lives were in danger.
"Patients who are in a life-threatening position are not rejected," Mr Beattie said on ABC radio.
NSW North Coast Area Health Service spokesman Robin Osborne said an investigation into the death had begun.
are hospitals to crowded many people are dying because of this
to little pay?
whats your opinion
THE premiers of NSW and Queensland have vowed to get to the bottom of the case of a man who died of a heart attack at a Gold Coast hospital after being turned away from a closer hospital in NSW.
The 48-year-old NSW man died yesterday after a 47-minute ambulance trip from Currumbin in Queensland to the Gold Coast Hospital at Southport.
The Queensland paramedics who picked him up initially wanted to take him to the nearest hospital, 8km away at Tweed Heads in NSW.
they were told Tweed Heads Hospital could not cope so they took the patient to the Gold Coast Hospital across the border, 22km away.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said it took 47 minutes from the time the man was first seen by paramedics to when they delivered him to the hospital, where he died of a cardiac arrest shortly after his arrival.
"We contacted the Tweed hospital, the closest most appropriate facility, and they advised that they were on redirection and couldn't accept the patient," the spokeswoman said yesterday.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma today expressed his condolences to the man's family, saying a full investigation had begun to get to the bottom of the matter.
"There are conflicting accounts as to what exactly did happen," Mr Iemma said.
"I'm advised that Tweed is the nearest hospital but there is some issue as to whether it was the Gold Coast hospital because the ambulance service is a Queensland ambulance service."
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said the state's hospitals did not refuse access to patients whose lives were in danger.
"Patients who are in a life-threatening position are not rejected," Mr Beattie said on ABC radio.
NSW North Coast Area Health Service spokesman Robin Osborne said an investigation into the death had begun.
are hospitals to crowded many people are dying because of this
to little pay?
whats your opinion
