Power Outages, Hospitals

Mr WHETSTONE (Chaffey) (15:05): My question is to the Minister for Health. Last night, were South Australian hospitals able to take all requests for transfers from nursing homes, and patients with home-based life-support equipment?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (15:05): As I said in my ministerial statement, at its peak, the calls for emergency ambulance services were at 500 per cent of their normal load. What happened was they had to be triaged because, obviously, with those sorts of levels, you are not going to be able to get to everyone, so they were appropriately and clinically triaged.

So, there would have been people who they certainly weren't able to get to in a timely way because they had to get to people who were far more urgent. I am not aware of there being any adverse outcomes as a result of any of those issues but we are going through a process at the moment to make sure what, if any, adverse outcomes there were as a result of yesterday's weather events.