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NHS doctors 'can't give oxygen, working in ambulances and watching patients die'

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The number of Covid-19 cases in the UK is on the rise, and a London doctor has spoken out about the situation within hospitals at the moment, and said they are at breaking point.An NHS doctor has said patients are being treated in ambulances due to a lack of hospital beds with the health service is at breaking point. Yesterday the Government said a further 964 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the UK total to 73,512. A highly infectious new variant of Covid is sweeping across the country with infection rates sky-high in London and the South East. Hospitals in the area have been struggling to cope, with patients waiting in ambulances outside for beds to become available. And this morning some . Dr Pushpo Babul Hossain, a junior doctor working in South London said: “I don't think any health care system in the world is equipped to deal with a pandemic of this scale.Read MoreRelated ArticlesRead MoreRelated Articles“We’re working all the hours we can and it’s absolutely draining. Sometimes, you don't feel like you're saving lives anymore." She told T : “Being a doctor should be a very rewarding profession but at the moment, we don’t have the time to feel anything. “We are having to deal with an unimaginable number of patients and doing so many extra hours, we’re in a non-stop, 'eat, sleep, work, repeat’ cycle which is exhausting.” She added: "Never before have so many patients required oxygen at the same time and many NHS hospitals are old buildings which have not been built to deliver oxygen on such a large scale. We do have the oxygen to supply to patients but what we don't have is the capacity to provide it to all of them at the same time."Read MoreRelated ArticlesRead MoreRelated ArticlesDr Priyesh Patel, 31, is an A&amp;E doctor who works at various London hospitals. He also told The Sun: “The numbers are higher than we experienced in March and April and it's put so much pressure and strain on the whole hospital, not just the A&amp;E department. “In A&amp;E, we're frequently running out of bed space and I've had to see seriously sick patients in ambulances, because they've been waiting for over four hours just to get inside the hospital.” He added: "I’ve seen people pass away in A&amp;E and the number of people needing oxygen has significantly gone up, which is quite concerning because if we don’t have the bed space, we can’t provide supportive measures like ventilation."In Brentwood in Essex, yesterday, a hospital also declared a critical incident. A nurse who works as a lead respiratory nurse for Southend Hospital, just a few miles away, pleaded with residents on and asked them to stay at home day and night because of how bad the situation has become. She tweeted at 8pm yesterday evening (December 31) after returning home from a gruelling shift, claiming that the hospital was in a very bad position. "Just come home from our hospital + I implore you-believe me, we are in a very bad way," she said. "Stay home during the DAY or NIGHT. "Don't buy alcohol/coffee etc from pub windows - @MSEHospitals distance!"Read MoreRelated ArticlesRead MoreRelated ArticlesNews broke yesterday (December 31) that patients were reportedly being airlifted from Southend Hospital to a hospital in Cambridge amid surging cases. An NHS spokesperson for the East of England has confirmed that there are measures in place to help manage significant pressure on hospitals by using other hospital trusts. They stressed that while they do what they can to manage increasing cases of patients with Covid-19, residents must follow government guidelines to reduce transmission.Read MoreRelated ArticlesAn NHS spokesperson for the East of England said: “The NHS has tried and tested plans in place to manage significant pressure and this has always included mutual aid practices whereby hospitals work together to provide the very best care for patients. “While we’re opening up more capacity in the East of England it remains vital that people continue to follow government guidance and do everything possible to reduce transmission of the virus.” At the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation trust, which covers Southend, Basildon and Broomfield, 89.1 per cent of adult critical care beds were occupied as of last Sunday (December 27).

The number of Covid-19 cases in the UK is on the rise, and a London doctor has spoken out about the situation within hospitals at the moment, and said they are at breaking point.An NHS doctor has said patients are being treated in ambulances due to a lack of hospital beds with the health service is at breaking point. Yesterday the Government said a further 964 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the UK total to 73,512. A highly infectious new variant of Covid is sweeping across the country with infection rates sky-high in London and the South East....

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