Premier Dominic Perrottet is quizzed ahead of Saturday's state election about calling the state's health minister before his wife ended up in hospital.
abc.net.au/news/nsw-dominic-perrottet-quizzed-on-ambulance-call-for-his-wife/102128018NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has admitted he phoned the state's health minister when his wife needed an ambulance last month, but said he "didn't ask for any favours".They are leaving patients waiting to be triaged, to respond to emergency calls, defying health department rules
"My wife was sick at the time, was paralysed in bed and I actually spoke to [Health Minister] Brad Hazzard in relation to that matter and an ambulance was organised," Mr Perrottet told Sky News. The move defies health department rules, but paramedics say emergency departments are clogged and hospital ramping remains a critical issues.Mr Perrottet last week said a 3 per cent wage cap for public servants was "responsible".
After much pressure to lift the 2.5 per cent wage cap, the NSW government agreed to give all public sector workers a 3 per cent increase in 2022-23 and 2023-2024."My wife called me coming back from an event and I spoke to Brad ... in relation to the situation and Brad was actually randomly enough with the head of ambulance at that point in time," the premier told Sky News last night.
A photograph posted on Mr Perrottet's Facebook page from February 14 shows his wife in a hospital bed.Gerard Hayes, secretary of the Health Services Union of NSW, said staff were exacerbated by the pressures the hospital was under, including "choke points," and "competing interests".
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