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In the UK, the endless wait at the hospital

2022-12-06T19:09:32.123Z


Ambulances, appointments, home care, the British public health system is very largely saturated. A situation that leads to tragedies.


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An 85-year-old lady with a broken hip waited… fourteen hours before an ambulance came to pick her up from her home in Cornwall.

In front of the hospital, she had to wait another twenty-six hours, in excruciating pain, because the establishment lacked beds.

In Hertfordshire, a patient with severe breathing difficulties had to go to hospital by Uber because the wait for an ambulance was… 18 hours.

As these recent examples show, the British health system (National Health Service, NHS) is once again on the brink of collapse.

In October, emergency services could not respond to 23% of calls.

That's one out of four!

Some 5,000 patients have suffered serious consequences, including death…

Added to this is the virtual impossibility of getting a doctor's appointment and endless waiting lists for operations.

“There are now 7.1 million people waiting for an intervention…

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Source: lefigaro

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