A doctors union is spelling out the pressures on Middlemore Hospital's Emergency Department
A doctors union is spelling out the pressures on Middlemore Hospital's Emergency Department
17 June 2022
A woman has died with a brain bleed after allegedly being told by staff at the hospital it would be eight hours before she was examined.
An unnamed doctor from the Auckland hospital says the 50-year-old - who presented early Wednesday morning with a severe headache - left.
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists' Sarah Dalton says the ED is incredibly thinly stretched.
She says they have been having record breaking numbers of patients coming in - more than once in the past week they've had more than 400 people in there.
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