DECRYPTION – According to a study, between 300 and 500 patients die each week in the emergency room, for lack of treatment in time.
From our correspondent in London
The stories are chilling, seeming to come from countries at war or underdeveloped countries. In the corridors of British hospitals, distress accumulates in unbearable layers. At the new Royal Liverpool Hospital, a 78-year-old man waited two days lying on a stretcher in the emergency room corridor. Around him, in an atmosphere of chaos, a man who allegedly had a stroke sat in the same chair for twenty-four hours. A woman preferred to retreat to her car to lie down a little better. Outside, ambulances lined up in front of admissions. The waiting record appears to have been sadly broken at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, where a patient had to wait 99 hours – more than four days – on a trolley before being allocated a bed.
These human stories, which make the headlines, are unfortunately confirmed by the figures. Those, given this weekend by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine…
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