Ambulance hospitals in the UK are overflowing and close to the collapse – patients are forced to wait in many hours of queues. This became known Independent.
According to the publication, this situation is fixed immediately in several regions of the country.
So, in County Lancashir, the patients complained about a long expectation of the bed – some of them were waiting for almost 50 hours before going to the hospital. Such was observed in the medical institution in Suffolk, where a minor with serious mental problems was waiting for almost 48 hours in the emergency department.
It is noted that the National Health Service of England (NHS) faced a serious lack of places for patients a few months earlier than it was assumed. At the moment, the country’s kainy fund is full of 91 percent.
“Winter becomes a serious problem for healthcare. The staff are increasingly worried about the NHS ability to cope with the situation. The authorities need to recognize the potential crisis and help in solving the tasks set up,” said President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Catherine Henderson.
In January, the doctors of the UK regions proposed to increase the level of threat from coronavirus in the country to the maximum. In addition, medical specialists warned about the risk of overheating of the health care system. They noted that the proliferation of coronavirus among the population is very high, the number of patients with COVID-19 in hospitals and resuscitation is also growing.
According to the latest data, 8,449,65 incidence of coronavirus were recorded in the UK. The number of recovered patients is 6,916,439, while 138,584 infection carriers died. Over the past day, 45,40 new cases of disease were revealed in the country.