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Due to rising admissions over Christmas and New Year the intensive care team decided to staff five consultants a day and expand the number of beds.
Dr Easby, 40, said: For us as a team, the most difficult point was a couple of weeks ago when the Norfolk patient numbers were increasing. We were taking in patients from all around the region, everyone in the region was struggling. It was just awful, people were not doing well and patients were very sick. It s only maybe this week we have started to get to the point we are getting a few more people off ventilators.