"There are patients all over the corridors," says Lisa, as she chained cigarettes outside the emergency room of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in Liverpool.
For the second time in a few weeks, his mother had to be taken care of in this service, while her condition is deteriorating rapidly.
“(A few days ago), I came to accompany my mother here from 5 p.m. to 4 a.m. the next morning,” says the Englishwoman.
“She stayed on a chair, while she was struggling to breathe”.
"It's shocking," she laments.
Another patient out to smoke says that she had to wait there for 30 hours, also with her mother.
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In the United Kingdom, the public health system, the NHS, is experiencing one of the most serious crises in its history.
Hospitals are close to breaking up after years of underfunding and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Throughout the country, patients wait for ambulances for several hours and then struggle to be taken care of in the emergency room.
According to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, an organization of emergency doctors, 300 to 500 people die each week because of this care system on the verge of chaos.
It is in this context of extreme tension that thousands of nurses began two new days of strike on January 18 and 19 to demand better wages and working conditions.
After a first historic mobilization in December, thousands of nurses again stopped work on Wednesday in England for two days, demanding better wages and working conditions, in a United Kingdom faced with high inflation.
