Emergency rooms completely saturated: nearly a hundred ambulances are waiting their turn in the parking lot to drop off patients

In Great Britain, many patients have been forced to wait in ambulances outside the hospital in recent days, due to a lack of available beds. A situation under “significant pressure”.

It is a completely surreal situation that has unfolded in Great Britain. The territory is hit by what they call a “quad-demic”, in other words, a “quadruple epidemic” of influenza, COVID-19, RSV and norovirus.

Result: a critical situation in the country, with patients waiting outside, in ambulance trucks. An emergency has even been declared in the hospital in Cornwall (England), according to the Daily Mail.

According to Kate Shields, the chief executive of the NHS Integrated Care Board:“We are currently seeing a high number of ambulances waiting outside the Royal Cornwall Hospital and patients in our Emergency Department.”

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90 ambulances

Declaring an emergency in care centres allows “the NHS to take additional and immediate action to create capacity, help discharge patients, relieve pressure on our emergency department and free up ambulances and their crews”, according to K. Shields.

A move to the emergency stage is mandatory, since “Up to 90 ambulances were waiting to drop off patients outside the hospital” in Wales, Jason Killens, the Welsh Ambulance Service's chief executive, told Sky News. “It's very rare that we declare a critical incident,” he added.