An aged lady tragically died on the night of February 28 after her situation deteriorated in an ambulance whereas she waited for about eight hours to be admitted to hospital.
The lady was handled by medical employees and paramedics within the ambulance outdoors of the hospital whereas she waited for a mattress to turn out to be accessible.
She sadly died within the Emergency Division of Ulster Hospital in Northern Eire.
In a press release, the South Jap Well being and Social Care Belief stated that it was "very saddened than an aged girl died within the Ulster Hospital's Emergency Division yesterday night", as reported by Belfast Dwell.
"The affected person’s situation deteriorated whereas she was being handled in an ambulance, the place she was being cared for by each ambulance employees and medical employees from the hospital.
"The affected person subsequently died within the emergency division."
"Our medical and nursing employees did every little thing doable to resuscitate the affected person within the emergency division.
"The Emergency Division had been beneath excessive strain all day, because it has been for a lot of months.
"Sustained pressures are being skilled in all the emergency departments throughout Northern Eire, leading to sufferers having to attend longer than we want for admission to hospital.
"The South Jap Belief has been involved with the girl’s household. We wish specific our deepest condolences to them.
"The Belief is finishing up a overview."
SDLP well being spokesperson Colin McGrath stated the girl's loss of life demonstrates the acute pressures on the well being service.
The South Down MLA stated: “My ideas exit to the household and buddies of the aged lady who died following an eight-hour wait in an ambulance outdoors the Ulster Hospital. My ideas are additionally with the paramedics and medical employees who did all they may to assist this lady in essentially the most tough circumstances conceivable.
“Our employees go above and past on daily basis and are being put via severe trauma as a result of state our well being service is presently in.”
Mr McGrath added: “This lady’s loss of life after an eight-hour wait to be admitted to hospital reveals simply how dangerous issues have turn out to be. We're now not capable of present the naked minimal requirements of care anticipated and it's having a severe affect on each sufferers and employees.
“This loss of life in such tragic circumstances is one other reminder of the necessity to put politics to 1 aspect and give attention to ways in which we are able to deal with the disaster in our well being service and enhance folks’s lives every day. No person’s life ought to finish in these circumstances, we should do every little thing in our energy to make sure that this by no means occurs once more.”
Final month, the Ulster Hospital stated its Emergency Division was experiencing a rise within the variety of sufferers being admitted with Covid-19.
The Belief has additionally issued quite a few pressing appeals not too long ago for nursing employees to assist in its Emergency Departments within the Ulster and Lagan Valley Hospitals and in addition in medical wards in both hospital.
On Tuesday morning there have been 473 Covid-19 sufferers in hospital, 5 of whom had been in intensive care, the Division of Well being stated.
General hospital capability is at 107% whereas there are 206 beds occupied over the capability.
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