Winter viruses will place additional pressure on the health service , a senior consultant warns.
A senior consultant has said he has never witnessed the current pressures in Northern Ireland's hospitals in his 20-year career.David Farren said winter viruses will place additional pressure on the health service in continuing to provide care."What we've had for the last 18 months, to be perfectly honest, are pressures that I have never seen in the health service in 20 years of being a doctor," he told BBC News NI.
Dr Farren said it is "not a place we want to be at this stage", adding "we haven't yet had the start of the flu season". "People will not get into hospital to get the procedures they require or get the treatments that they require."Dr Farren is urging people to continue to show "common sense" in observing social distancing and wearing face masks, as well as to get fully vaccinated.
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