The emergency at Lianhe Tun Hospital had to wait 8 hours last night
The conversion of the Iraqi Hospital into a designated hospital has affected the entire hospital cluster. A source from the public hospital said that the Iraqi Hospital belongs to the Kowloon Central Cluster, and the Kowloon West Cluster together received more than half of the infected people in Hong Kong during peak hours. The Iraqi hospital is now concentrating on the infected patients, which could have relieved the pressure of other hospitals receiving infected cases, but the emergency room of the Iraqi hospital has stopped accepting non-infected patients who are not life-threatening, and other emergency departments have increased their burden. The source said at noon yesterday, “The A&E department is pulling the white flag every now and then. Renji is so bad.” , we must put out the fire at all times.”
Medical care: First aid is too busy to arrange other treatment
The waiting time at the A&E Department of the Yi Hospital was less than an hour yesterday and last night, while the waiting time at Yan Chai Hospital was over 4 hours at 4:45 p.m. yesterday, and over 3 hours at 10:15 last night.
A doctor in the A&E department of Caritas Hospital said that the number of patients in the A&E department has declined slightly in recent days, but there are still more than 100 people stranded. “Changes” have been made to arrange for those infected to go directly to the A&E department without having to wait outdoors. The doctors and nurses wear protective clothing indoors. “It’s like a ward.” However, some doctors and nurses are understaffed. It was originally planned to have more than 10 nurses. Recently, only 4 people were on duty, and many colleagues were required to return to the hospital on duty.
The doctor believes that the existing difficulty in the A&E department is that there are too many people in need of emergency treatment. In the past, there were only about 3 to 4 people per shift, but from this month, there are about 8 people per shift, which has nearly doubled. Most of them are the elderly with shortness of breath and chronic diseases, and even the same It takes 3 to 4 people to give first aid, and several doctors and nurses are needed for each first aid, and no one is available to arrange other treatment, which is described as a disaster state, “Each shift takes 8 hours, which is limited, and there are always people who need first aid. , we really can’t handle it.” The doctor said that a colleague was “stunned to return to work and recruited, and he worked hard, and he was worried about bringing the virus back to the house.” The hospital will let employees live in hotels. If the infection rises again in the future, it is recommended that other hospitals follow suit.
The medical bureau pointed to the earlier situation
He Wanxia, the chief administrative manager of the Hospital Authority, took the initiative to mention the photos of people and corpses crowded together in wards circulating on the Internet at the press conference on the epidemic yesterday, saying that the situation appeared earlier. Ho also said that the HA understands that some remains cannot be transported to the mortuary for a short period of time, and the patient may be uneasy. When asked if she would apologize to the patient, she said, “I’m sorry for causing the patient to be uneasy.”