Five hundred British doctors have signed a letter to the Prime Minister asking Rishi Sunak not to waste any more time and call an emergency Parliament to discuss the UK’s NHS crisis. Doctors say they have never seen so many problems, with patients dying and health professionals devastated by the lack of conditions to save them.
“For staff working in the NHS or any patient desperately trying to access care, the denial that the NHS is in crisis is simply wishful thinking,” said Vishal Sharma, chairman of the NHS. National Health Service (NHS). of the advisory committee of the British Medical Association, which represents the majority of doctors in the country.
In Gloucester, a 90-year-old woman fell down the stairs and broke her hip. A normal accident anywhere in the world, but this British woman was in so much pain that no one could lift her. She lay on the ground where she fell for almost 24 hours waiting for an ambulance. When she finally got a ride to an emergency room, she still had to wait another four hours in the ambulance before she was seen. The case was reported by her granddaughter, a nursing student, on the BBC.
“[A minha avó] she suffered a lot, we couldn’t move her. We made her as comfortable as possible, put some pillows on her and kept her warm while she waited,” said Rachel Walter, the 90-year-old granddaughter of the woman.
However, this is not a unique case. There are similar ones in other media. A man who waited 99 hours at the emergency room door or a patient who had to lie down in his own car due to lack of beds in the hospital. Reports that give an idea of what is happening and what led the Association of Emergency Physicians to classify this winter as the worst in decades: the population has aged, the British National Health Service is chronically underfunded, Covid-19 is still not gone and the flu is attacking with force.
According to the BBC, the problem started a long time ago, before Covid-19, when there were already more than four million Britons waiting for medical attention. Now, no matter how many hours they work, family doctors do not respond to the demand, hospitals are without beds for more hospitalizations and without a place for patients. The solution may be to open more field hospitals.
A situation that places Rishi Sunak’s executive at the center of all criticism, especially for having minimized the problem, and now there are hundreds of doctors who want to see the matter urgently debated in Parliament. In addition, the new year promises to begin as the previous one ended: with a strike by nurses and the ambulance service for reforms and salary increases in line with inflation.
Source: TSF
