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Inside hospital on UK's Covid-19 frontline with staff left 'exhausted' and 'run down' - Mirror Online

Inside hospital on UK's Covid-19 frontline with staff left 'exhausted' and 'run down' - Mirror Online

Inside hospital on UK's Covid-19 frontline with staff left 'exhausted' and 'run down' - Mirror Online
Oct 22, 2020 1 min, 24 secs

One NHS testing laboratory scientist at Whiston Hospital in Knowsley warned that the situation is 'worse than it was in April' as doctors treat a flood of patients infected in the second wave of coronavirus.

Health workers battling the second wave of coronavirus at one UK hospital have told how they are 'exhausted' and 'run down'. .

He said: "It is so difficult for those of us who walk in every day to care for the most critically ill patients that we know someone sprayed 'hoax' on the side of a town hall.

Clinical director of intensive care Dr Ascanio Tridente said there were more than 120 patients with coronavirus in the hospital, compared with fewer than 10 at the start of September.

Emergency medicine consultant Dr Andy Ashton said positive coronavirus cases in the health trust doubled every week for the first four weeks from September and were now increasing at a rate of 60% per week.

Dr Hannah Coles, also an emergency medicine consultant, said there was a better understanding of what they were dealing with for coronavirus patients and urged people with other health conditions to continue to come to the hospital if they needed urgent treatment.

She said: "If patients are unwell and they feel they need to be seen then they should still attend the emergency department and they need to be reassured that they will still be seen and managed when they do come to us.".

A medical director at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said the need to continue operations at the same time as treating coronavirus patients has "significantly complicated" the second wave

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