Fear of collapse of UK health system due to omicron morbidity becomes a reality:
The UK National Health System (NHS) today (Sunday) issued a desperate call for the British government and public to wake up from complacency towards the contagious variant in light of the steep rise in hospitalization across the country.
As you may recall, in recent days the infection record in the kingdom has been broken with almost 200,000 infections per day.
At the same time, the number of people hospitalized in England, and probably also in other parts of the kingdom, has reached a peak not seen since February 2021.
According to the British Daily Mirror, NHS executives say the current rate of hospitalization is likely to lead to a "health emergency" due to two problems: increasing occupancy of corona infections in wards, and lack of adequate medical staff forced to isolate due to the record-breaking infection rate in the kingdom The latter.
The head of the NHS in England, Matthew Taylor, commented on the situation and said that although the current wave is "less bad" than the previous waves, because of the relatively mild symptoms it usually causes for those who have contracted and started developing symptoms, The hospitalization is growing and the burden on the medical system is extremely heavy, especially in light of the Christian holiday period when there are many hospitalizations anyway.
He estimates that if the situation does not change significantly in the coming days there is a fear that "we will be in a situation where we will not be able to provide services other than treating Corona patients".
Another senior NHS official, the director of medical services, said: "We are already beyond our capacity."
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