When Helen Watson was first injured she spent more than two hours stuck in an ambulance ramping at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
The family of an elderly woman who broke her pelvis 12 days ago have raised questions about her care after she was transported between hospitals in a taxi.
"That's a really long time when you are in a lot of pain, you don't know what's going on and you know, being her age, she's confused by those sorts of things," her granddaughter Melanie Lavis told 9News.Helen Watson broke her pelvis in two places and was transferred between hospitals in a taxi. "Dad called me at about five o'clock yesterday and said that they had moved Grandma to Modbury Hospital and that they had done that in a taxi," she said.
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