OMIKRON has caused a total collapse in Britain: Paramedics want people with a heart attack to call a taxi! – Topky.sk

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Twelve hospitals in London have declared a critical emergency due to the growing number of hospitalizations and staff shortages. The health care system in the British capital is operating from the last force. The situation is so serious that paramedics are even asking people who have a suspected heart attack to order a taxi, the portal says. The Guardian. He arrives faster than an ambulance in the current critical situation.

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Omikron is heading north from London, where individual cities are already preparing for the next wave. If a similar scenario occurs in the capital, they can expect crowded hospitals. The United Kingdom set another record on Tuesday in the number of daily positive cases (218,724) and 48 deaths. Sakthi Karunanithi, director of the Lancashire County Public Health Bureau, said they were already preparing for a huge wave of omicron cases. “In particular, we see a shift in the disease from people under 40 to seniors over 60, which is a major concern for us. Lancashire is experiencing what London did in early December. But the capital has better resources and facilities to fight the coronavirus than we do. ” declared.

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Boris Johnson insisted on Tuesday that no further restrictions will be imposed in the country, despite the growing number of infected. The Royal Lancaster Hospital in Lancashire has occupied 340 beds a day. “The hospital is full to the last bed, we don’t have any more capacity and we’re going one hundred percent. We’re in a situation where one person is leaving and another is going to the reception,” described the dramatic situation by one of the doctors. Blackpool Hospital Director Trish Armstrong-Child added that more and more people are hospitalized every day. According to her, such a situation is simply unsustainable.

Soldiers also help

On Friday, they began deploying members of the army to hospitals in the British capital London. They are intended to replace health professionals who have fallen ill on the covid or are in quarantine after contact with infected persons. The AP agency informed about it. London is currently experiencing a rapid increase in the number of new coronavirus infections due to the spread of the highly infectious omicron variant. Thus, local hospitals are struggling not only with an increase in the number of covid patients, but also with an unprecedented shortage of medical staff.

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The British Ministry of Defense therefore announced that it was sending about 40 military medics and 160 other members of the army to London hospitals. “Both men and women from our armed forces are coming again to support their self-sacrificing colleagues from the National Health Service,” said British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. He recalled that members of the British army had been helping paramedics since the beginning of the pandemic, whether as ambulance drivers, in administering vaccines or in caring for patients in hospitals.

The current deployment of troops concerns only London, but there are discussions about their deployment in other areas of the United Kingdom. Chaand Nagpaul, a spokesman for the British Medical Association (BMA), told Sky News that the local health service had never struggled with such staff absences. Doctors, nurses and nurses are under enormous burden as they have to take on services from their absent colleagues. According to Nagpaul, the situation is critical throughout England, so hospitals must postpone planned operations. According to him, the consequences of this condition are felt by thousands of patients, the AP agency reported.