<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>South Australia's health system is under fire after a great-grandmother went through a horror ordeal, being stuck on the hospital ramp at two different hospitals and forced to wait more than 24 hours for a bed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pat, who's 91 years old and weighs just 39 kilograms, had a fall at home on Monday afternoon, and the situation rapidly deteriorated. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I had to make three more phone calls to escalate it because she started bleeding from the nose and then she was in pain, lower back pain," daughter Libby Turner said. </span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/carolina-wilga-search-for-backpacker-missing-from-outback-wa-expands-across-australia/91d37c37-34cd-4f4a-9c22-a16cf6ebfa4e"><strong><span>Search for missing backpacker in outback intensifies after van found empty</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span></span></strong><span>An ambulance arrived about 90 minutes later, transporting Pat to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), where she remained in the back of an ambulance on a hospital ramp for hours.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I sat with her in the ambulance ramped at the QEH until 10pm," Turner said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"They were having to take her out of the ambulance and into that freezing cold storm to get her more comfortable," said Libby Turner.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/adelaide-grandmother-hospital-ramping-ordeal/a2be98d3-72cd-4fc7-bf74-3a1a3811045d" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>At 6am on Tuesday, she was moved to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where she was ramped again.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It wasn't until that 9am she was finally taken in and assessed, but Libby says she waited more than 24 hours in emergency for a bed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I've just seen her now and she's not good," Turner said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/multiple-pedestrians-hit-by-car-in-melbourne/56b9a06c-3aac-407e-b554-2ff0fa4d06c8"><strong><span>Woman killed, young boy and man fighting for life after car veered onto footpath</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Turner family say they're speaking out about the state's health system because they felt like they had no other option, and don't want anyone else to have to go through what they did</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Well it's not fixed, it's f------," Turner said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Sorry, but no other word for it."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The opposition says the incident shows the health system needs to change.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's shocking, it's shameful," opposition health spokeswoman Ashton Hurn said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I'm really sorry in terms of what happened and the government is doing everything we possibly can to improve the situation for other patients," Health Minister Chris Picton said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>This article was produced with the assistance of</span></em><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/technology/9express/16480c33-636a-461f-9c4f-d0e2522c722a"><em><span>9ExPress</span></em></a><em><span>.</span></em></div></div>