ARE health chiefs so blind to the inadequacy of their radical shake up? We need local surgeries or clinics designed in such a way to condense all the equipment needed for an emergency.
But it is not an emergency until it is assessed as one. So why build or have super hospitals in the most congested places in town, wasting time in transporting patients through traffic, wasting precious time which costs lives? But by only having two or four super hospitals then the shear numbers waiting to use them will overwhelm them and there is your problem. It’s simple.
When is a patient at most risk? When they are one the move. If a patient is not transported too far, more time is saved. Why not transport the consultants? How do we deal with the wounded on the battle field? We have field hospitals and those are put where the action is.
N Darwen St Georges Avenue Westhoughton
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