Staff have been overwhelmed with the numbers of patients needing treatment, with ambulances queued outside hospitals for hours.
Top Accident and Emergency medics have demanded “critical incident status” options for Scotland’s crisis hit hospitals.
He told how in times of extreme pressure, offices had to be used for patients and some treatments were being carried out in relatives’ rooms. He said: “Many hospitals have more patients in wards than beds - a number of health boards are using every available space. Some patients are being treated in relatives rooms or in office space.”
But he admitted: “It does carry some risk of a shortage of staff in the aftermath but some hospitals with a very acute problem need to escalate to that status and take that risk. Ambulances should spend 15 minutes at hospital but that is a rare now. Hospital insiders sent text messages to the Daily Record as the crisis began to spiral out of control on Thursday. One nurse at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary texted us from the frontline saying: “Glasgow Royal Infirmary - burst. 27 ambulances waiting outside. Patients being treated in corridors in A & E. Senior management too scared to declare a critical incident.”
Labour’s health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie called on health secretary Yousaf to “allow health boards to declare a critical incident or he needs to do it himself for the whole of Scotland”. She added: “What is happening in Glasgow is being replicated across the whole country. There is overcrowding, people are being treated in corridors and in the back of ambulances.
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