{"id":21916,"date":"2023-01-06T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/06\/hospital-staff-are-completely-overwhelmed\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T22:34:10","slug":"hospital-staff-are-completely-overwhelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=21916","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hospital staff are completely overwhelmed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is investigating whether a delayed response contributed to the deaths of eight people in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">All eight deaths occurred between the 12 December and the start of January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">At this stage four of the deaths are being treated as serious adverse incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The remaining cases are being investigated to determine whether they meet the criteria to be treated as an serious adverse incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It comes as an emergency department nurse told BBC News NI he would be worried if any of his loved ones had to seek treatment as staff continued to be overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Stephen McKenna, who spent the Christmas period working on the frontline, described conditions as &#8220;absolutely horrific&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-64158308\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-64164556?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is investigating whether a delayed response contributed to the deaths of eight people in recent weeks. All eight deaths occurred between the 12 December &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}