UK hospital issues ‘black alert’ after surge in flu
Posted on
December 31, 2010 by
Derek Gilbert
(THE TELEGRAPH) — Doctors in hot spots around the country have warned services are being exhausted by demand for treatment and the pressures on hospitals are “not sustainable”.
The problems are so severe in some areas that non-urgent operations have been cancelled.
The alarm bells have sounded as official figures show that there are now 738 people in intensive with the disease – almost double the figure of 460 last week.
James Paget University Hospital in Great Yarmouth was among those forced to declare a “black alert” – an NHS hospital’s most severe status level.
via Flu levels almost double among children under five – Telegraph.
