<![CDATA[Hang on, wtf?]]>Hang on, wtf? There are (only!) 5 ambulances in Darwin? Is that right?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-28/nt-st-john-triple-zero-calls-abandoned-priority-cases-delays/106506806

]]>https://postcall.pub/topic/31c12aa2-6246-463c-89f0-8a12d88b2b76/hang-on-wtfRSS for NodeTue, 07 Apr 2026 14:31:30 GMTSat, 28 Mar 2026 10:00:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Hang on, wtf? on Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:08:28 GMT]]>@offbyone there's ~130,000 people in Darwin, Alice has ~35,000 and 250,000 in the whole NT. It's barely big enough to count as a suburb in an east coast state.

So in terms of ambulances per person NT has more than average, not least because if Alice had the usual ~2/100,000 that would be 0.8 ambulances. It's pretty hard to drive 4/5ths of an ambulance 🙂

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