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Adelaide 36ers player Benjamin Griscti was injured during a training session at the AIS. Photo: National Basketball League (Kelly Defina\/Getty Images).<\/p>\n
Ambulance Services ACT\u2019s head has confirmed it took an ambulance 96 minutes to reach a basketball player who had been injured after a backboard collapsed onto him at the AIS Arena.<\/p>\n
An Adelaide 36ers statement said that centre Benjamin Griscti suffered a fractured vertebrae in his neck as a result of the incident during the team\u2019s training shoot-around on Saturday (30 August), ahead of their NBL Blitz game against Tasmania.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe won\u2019t require surgery and is expected to make a full recovery,\u201d a team statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has travelled home to Adelaide, and a timeline for him to return to the court will not be set until he is able to get further medical advice to determine the next steps around the management of the injury.\u201d<\/p>\n
ACTAS chief officer David Dutton confirmed how long it took from the first Triple Zero call for an ambulance to arrive on Tuesday (2 September).<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were two call-backs to emergency triple zero whilst those people were waiting for the ambulance, and the paramedics arrived on scene 96 minutes after the first emergency triple zero call,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Chief Dutton said the call had been \u201cappropriately\u201d triaged as a priority or code two.<\/p>\n
According to the Productivity Commission, code two responses are \u201curgent\u201d and require an \u201cundelayed response \u2026 without lights and sirens\u201d.<\/p>\n
It has a key performance indicator of up to 90 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a number of other emergencies in the Territory at the time of that call, and as soon as we were able to dispatch a paramedic crew to that patient, they attended, and they transported that patient in a stable condition through to the emergency department,\u201d Chief Dutton said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can confirm that [when call-backs were received], there was no change in the patient\u2019s condition, and therefore no change to the priority of the ambulance response.<\/p>\n
\u201c[The] patient was conscious, alert and breathing the whole time and was attended by a team doctor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Both the National Basketball League and the Australian Sports Commission are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n
Region contacted the Commonwealth Government, which funds the facility, to ask whether the incident would change funding priorities.<\/p>\n