Cork University Hospital
A black escalation, according to HSE guidelines, means the emergency department (ED) and other parts of the hospital are in a “critical position and clinically unsafe”.
Seventy patients were awaiting a hospital bed in CUH today, as the hospital experienced high levels of overcrowding.
CUH has catered for 50 or more patients who were awaiting beds for the past three consecutive days.
“Patients are enduring extreme delays which is distressing,” said Dr Conor Deasy, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at CUH.
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Ideologically engineered inefficiencies, great for well-placed investors to profit from the “failure” of the State, barbaric for the rest of us.
This.
We need more wards opened. And the necessary staff to operate them.
Yes underfund it, badly manage it and then privatise and rip us all off. Watch some government cronies get the contracts.
Maybe Kylie can build a wing?