Amid staff shortages there have been calls for urgent intervention at the facility
Parts of the Emergency Department at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry had to be closed over a busy weekend due to staff shortages, it has emerged.
Permanent Secretary Peter May, in a letter to Mr Durkan, also said work had begun on a review of urgent and emergency care. "Urgent intervention is required to ensure the hospital is adequately resourced, especially as we head into the winter months. The partial closure of emergency care in recent weeks is indicative of a service in slow motion collapse.
"Others aren’t receiving timely and appropriate care; I’ve received several reports of people suffering seizures within waiting rooms forced to wait in soiled clothes before being treated or elderly patients’ presenting with suspected stroke waiting on plastic hospital chairs throughout the night before staff have been able to assess them."
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