A woman died after a two-hour wait for an ambulance during the heatwave say union officials. Source: AAP
AN 85-year-old woman with heatstroke died after a two-hour wait for an ambulance during last week's heatwave, the ambulance union says.
Hundreds of paramedics are expected to converge on the Ambulance Victoria headquarters on Wednesday morning over their ongoing industrial dispute.
Ambulance Employees Australia (AEA) Victorian secretary Steve McGhie says ambulance services went into "meltdown" during last week's heatwave.
"Even during relatively quiet times, Victoria's ambulance service is woefully inadequate. However, last week the system went into meltdown," Mr McGhie said.
Paramedics reported delays of seven hours and extensive ramping, where a transported patient has a long wait in the vehicle on arriving at hospital because there are no available care areas or beds.
One elderly patient waited nine hours on a stretcher for a bed at Northern Hospital and no crews were free to attend a motorbike accident patient who had skin missing from his face and a leg fracture, the AEA said.
A spokesman for Health Minister David Davis said the coalition government inherited an ambulance system in crisis and has since injected millions to recruit more paramedics.
Ambulance Victoria CEO Greg Sassella said it had been negotiating in good faith to reach a meaningful enterprise agreement and wage increase outcome.
He said they remain in voluntary conciliation with the unions and their next meeting was scheduled for the end of this month.
The ambulance union claims its paramedics are the lowest paid in Australia and they could go interstate and earn almost $30,000 more for doing the same job.
Deputy opposition leader James Merlino said the tragedy was yet another example of an ambulance system in crisis.
"Response times for code one emergencies have blown out each year of this government," Mr Merlino told reporters on Wednesday.
"The government are yet to acknowledge they created the crisis and are yet to respond to it."
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