Another disturbing story emerges from a Melbourne emergency department

A Melbourne woman says her husband was stuck waiting to be offloaded from an ambulance more than five hours after having a heart attack.

Glenys’ husband Russell was struggling to breath just after 4am, so she phoned nurse on call, then an ambulance, which arrived about half an hour later and found him in cardiac arrest.

He was taken to Frankston Hospital, where he was ninth in the queue to be offloaded from an ambulance at about 6.30am.

It took more than five hours for him to be admitted.

“The system is terrible. It’s broken,” Glenys said.

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Russell’s daughter called Neil Mitchell just before midday to share an update.

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