NI Health: Emergency care pressures 'will cause more deaths'

Dr Paul Kerr said there was "a dreadful crowding situation" at emergency departments in Northern Ireland

"We have a dreadful crowding situation and we have perhaps 450 patients lying on trolleys at this moment in time, queuing literally to get into hospital for emergency treatment," he told BBC News NI. "There are staff leaving because of this very problem and they are being brutalised by this system suffering what we would call moral injury.

It said that for the longer term, the department had "been clear on the need for sustained action to build greater capacity - including sustained, significant investment and reconfiguration of services".

VP_NI_RCEM Overcrowding in RVH A&E indeed! Also 2 nurses wh flat out dealing with 14 patients, relatives taking turns to admin vital care doubt that's ethical either. Get the politicians off their A*** , sleeves rolled, get in the real world and see the mess 'you' created!!

VP_NI_RCEM Tired saying it but still needs to be said. Robin Swann’s ‘armchair experts’ warned of the dangers associated with turning health service into a Covid service - prioritising a respiratory virus over all other ailments - with consequences of costing more lives than saved.

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