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BLADEN COUTY, N.C. (WECT) - Cape Fear Valley Health System announced updates to its masking and visitation policies on Tuesday, June 20, that will take effe .
to the next morning. she has nothing but praise for the nhs staff involved but describes the situation as chaotic. it s really opened my eyes to the pressures that they are under and how overwhelmed they are, because i ve heard loads of stories, people always talk about these things and you don t really believe it or you think it s only in the big hospitals. but this is happening everywhere. new figures show the pressure facing hospitals in england. last week a fit of ambulances had to queue for at least 30 minutes before discharging their patients. the number of people who then had to wait to be moved on to a hospital ward has hit a record high. last month, 120,000 patients were held in a&e for four hours before the transfer with more than 16,000 waiting for more than 12 hours. these figures represent tremendous pressures throughout the whole system, from primary care and ambulance services to the emergency department patients, to our general wards and to patients then being discharge
month. over a month in. yeah. perpetually. we had that many emergency department patients in our emergency department that need to be on the floors and we just can t. we re stepping on the hose up here. there s nowhere for them to go. reporter: health care workers from the nurses to doctors to those who sanitize and ready vi rooms for next victim of coronavirus get up every day and go at it again. how does the stress manifest itself in your life? yused to be on the days i coe to work but now it carries over to i have to come into work and do this. i love my job and i can t see myself doing anything else but it s the heaviness that is here working in these situations with these people who before they go off in door they had a normal life, healthy people, out celebrating thanksgiving and now they are here with mask on their face teary eyed staring at me asking if they will live or not.
elected procedures on hold. the wait for a bed once admitted, two days. its emergency department swamped for weeks. . and how often is your emergency department overwhelmed to that level? . we have been that way over a month. . over a month? . yeah. perpetually. we have had that many emergency department patients in our emergency department that need to be on the floors. and we can t there is nowhere for them to go. reporter: health care workers from the nurses to the doctors, to those who sanitize and ready rooms for the next victim of coronavirus get up every day and go at it again. how does the stress manifest itself? on the days i came to work, i would be stressed out. but now it comes having to come to work. i love my job. it is just the heaviness and