Health
‘We’re running out of oxygen’: Doctor makes emotional plea as NHS on brink of COVID crisis – Yahoo News Australia
Hospital COVID admissions are now higher than the peak, leaving frontline staff ‘at breaking point’.
One of five COVID-19 wards at Whiston Hospital in Merseyside. (PA)
A doctor has made an emotional plea that hospitals are on the brink of being overwhelmed as COVID-19 cases continue to surge.
In a widely shared Twitter thread, Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, president of the Doctors Association UK, said that she and her colleagues are at breaking point.
It comes as Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of the NHS, said the UK is “back in the eye of the storm” as the number of patients being treated for coronavirus…
-
Noosa News18 hours agoChild, 15, arrested over death of another child, 8, after shocking e-bike crash in Queensland
-
General16 hours agoCrowe toasts talkback titan for platforming ‘voiceless’
-
General17 hours agoSingapore’s world-first sustainable flights tax will see some Australians pay more to travel
-
General12 hours agoPerth man charged after investigation into organised crime and tobacco store attacks