Cork GP Highlights The Impact The Overcrowding Crisis Is Having On Cork University Hospital
A black escalation level was declared at the hospital this month due to overcrowding
The acute medical assessment unit at Cork University Hospital has essentially been turned into a ward due to overcrowding at the hospital's A&E.
That's according to a Cork GP who says that the emergency department recently became so clogged that patients were sent to the unit in recent weeks which was treated as a ward to cope with the volume of presentations.
A black escalation level was declared at the hospital this month due to overcrowding and extreme delays with many describing conditions as clinically unsafe.
Speaking to RedFM News Blackpool based GP Dr John Sheehan says the overcrowding crisis is impacting severely on this unit and if it continues it will not be able to perform its intended functions:
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