No fewer than seven persons were burnt to death while 14 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a lone accident around OPIC on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Sunday.
getting burnt out quickly and we are worried about retaining staff. they re leaving more than they re joining and that is a real problem. we are about to get into christmas party season. we know from the documentary is about accident and emergency, christmas party season is important with people getting drunk and injured, could that tip the edge? no. you have totally missed it, that is not it at all. it sounds like, like we are at the tipping point where the system is teetering and what could be the straw that breaks the camel s back? i don t think that will. i think what breaks the camel s back will be deaths. unfortunately, we already have evidence to show that if patients are waiting for more than eight to 12 hours in the emergency department, mortality rates go up within 30 days. and we already have that evidence, we have shown that
to the government since earlier this year. it does not seem to have touched anyone. 0k. if that gets worse, that will break us. i talked about those documentaries about seeing a fly on the wall in the department but could you paint a picture about what will it be like in your emergency department tonight on thursday night? what does it feel or sound like? what are the emotions and stress levels like? so, i think scared. that is one picture. we have had frail patients who have been shaking, literally trembling and you have gone over to ask them, are you 0k? and they have responded, i am frightened. the reason why this lady was frightened was because she was in a corridor full of patients and there are departments that can hold up to 38 trolleys
so that is why the state is as it is, as you ve just declared. it is no longer really four hours. patients are waiting over 12 hours, or well over a day in the emergency department and that is unacceptable. on the radio this morning the health secretary was saying there are several new medical schools are about to come on stream that were commissioned by theresa may a few years ago, so they re ready to go now. in the autumn statement one of the surprises in the autumn statement from the chancellor was billions of extra pounds for the nhs over the next two years, which people weren t expecting and also borisjohnson s signature pledge was tens of thousands of extra nurses. you re making it sound like all of our dreams have been made true! it has not amounted to anything, has it? because if it did you wouldn t be seeing the problem you did today. yes, there are plans for medical schools, it takes a long time to train a medical student to become a doctor and then they have got to go throug