Princess Margaret Hospital. (File photo)
Scores of patients are being forced to wait long hours in order to be admitted to PMH due a critical bed shortage at the facility.
Sources familiar with the situation told The Tribune on Thursday that patients have been placed on trolleys and ambulance stretchers due to the issue.
Health and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville is expected to address the issue at a press conference today.
BNU President Amancha Williams told this newspaper that she was informed that some 35 people are waiting to be admitted into hospital, some of whom are COVID-19 patients.
The situation has also impacted operations at Accident & Emergency, with Emergency Service workers warning that the public can experience longer wait times due to limited resources.
This is because not many of the ambulances have stretchers due to situation at PMH.
Comments
tribanon 2 years, 5 months ago
No real news here. Our public health system remains overwhelmed by illegal nationals that our political ruling class refuses to do anything about. And the simple reason why our political ruling class is not the least bit incentivized to do anything about this perennial crisis situation is that they enjoy health insurance benefits at the taxpayers' expense which allow them to receive medical treatment abroad for serious illnesses they become afflicted with. Anyone remember how quickly Coward Davis fled to the U.S. for medical treatment when he was diagnosed as being infected with COVID-19?
birdiestrachan 2 years, 5 months ago
Nothing new here this is an old story. No Beds at the hospital
tribanon 2 years, 5 months ago
And of course it cannot possibly be the responsibility of the corrupt and incompetent PLP government led by Cruel Davis to ensure the public hospital has sufficient beds, adequate medical equipment and supplies, sufficient qualified nurses and medical doctors, etc., etc. In your small one-sided mind, I'm sure that's all rightfully the responsibility of the FNM opposition. LOL
birdiestrachan 2 years, 5 months ago
I am going to do my very best to help you out the hospital is inadequate for the population. it was built many years ago when the population was less. who to blame?? you figure that out you are the smart one.
tribanon 2 years, 5 months ago
And of course, your elitist friends of the PLP persuasion, who constitute a large part of our country's corrupt political ruling class, cannot possibly bear any responsibility for our grossly dysfunctional and inadequate public health system. LMAO
ThisIsOurs 2 years, 5 months ago
Again, the one thing we know for sure the surge started before the independence holiday. What happened before the holiday? A surge of tourists. They're going to have to face this reality or we'll just keep repeating this nonsensical cycle. What does it call for? Monitoring world health trends and fashioning response to our unique circumstances. Unlike the world, we have 1 hospital and we can only handle a max of 30 severe COVID cases at one time. Our response cannot be everyone else in the world doing X. They een in our shoes. Said over and repeatedly we're about 3 months behind whatever spikes outside our border.
John 2 years, 5 months ago
@ Thisis ours: part of what you are saying is incorrect. The Bahamas did not experience a surge in April-May but a full wave of Covid. It was a sub variant of the Omicron strain. Because the symptoms were mild and hospitalizations and deaths were relatively low, the fifth wave was barely reported. The Bahamas and most of the world are now going through a sixth wave which is a sub variant of the Omnicron sub-variant. Or you can call it the grandchild of Omicron. It is spreading more rapidly than Omicron and the omicron sub-variant did but , again the symptoms are mild and barely noticeable. Most people don’t know they have it unless they have to take a test. The symptoms are flu-like with scratchy throat. And the CDC is now recommending that persons, especially those who travel wear masks.. . MY OPINION is that these waves will continue to come but the symptoms will be less and less severe until Covid-19 becomes just a ripple and withers away.
. . It is also apparent that countries, like The Bahamas, that have some restrictions in place masks, sanitizing distancing etc and faring better than countries , like the US, that have none, or Countries, like China that still have lockdowns. In fact China has a lot of catching up to do to be on par with the rest of the world. One scientist says both herd immunity and natural immunity are now in effect, and as more people develop a resistance to the virus ( get it and recover) Covid-19 will eventually burn itself out.
DWW 2 years, 5 months ago
if they declined the wax, they knew the risk, let em sit outside and live their life.
tribanon 2 years, 5 months ago
Then again, many of the illegal nationals occupying our hospital beds may have been 'vaxxed' on multiple occasions. Our government in conjunction with the PAHO/WHO went out of its way to 'vax' as many illegal nationals in our country as possible, at great financial cost to Bahamian taxpayers.
John 2 years, 5 months ago
Obviously you didn’t even read the article, yet you come here with your sullying. The patients are not suffering from Covid-19 but from regular everyday illnesses. READ, Bahamas Read! And furthermore, NONE of the vaccines are effective against Omicron or any of its sub variants.
SP 2 years, 5 months ago
Successive governments have allowed illegal Haitians to overwhelm our health, social services, and education systems for decades.
The PLP and FNM are stupidly allowing Haitians to drag us down to Haiti's level!
Politicians cannot do what needs to be done because they are too compromised by secret deals with Haiti and the UN.
It is time for Bahamians to take our country back and do what's best for Bahamians for a change.
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