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Record winter surge pushes Emergency Departments beyond capacity

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Hospitals across New Zealand faced record emergency department (ED) demand during a two-week peak this winter, with some treating twice as many patients as they had beds for.

According to state-funded media, Wellington Hospital’s ED reached 223 percent capacity on one day, frequently operating over 150 percent, while Waikato and Dunedin also regularly exceeded safe limits.

Middlemore and Counties Manukau experienced severe “bed block,” with more than half their ED beds occupied by patients awaiting ward admission.

Data from 28 July to 10 August showed few instances of EDs running below 100 percent capacity, except Auckland, which counted chairs and clinic rooms as treatment spaces.

Government figures indicated some improvements in reducing long ED stays, though most hospitals remained well below the 95 percent target. New ED facilities are planned for Wellington and Palmerston North.

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8 COMMENTS

  1. Recurring vaccine damage
    Explained away as long covid
    That attacks and shuts down the bodies natural immune defense systems
    Making people vulnerable to everything from the common cold
    Covid that is in all influenza
    And never proven to be an isolated separate stand alone virus
    Covid a complete fabrication and fraud from start to finish
    Like Christchurch
    Mystery solved

  2. Baffled. Had a few years to figure this out but the causes are proving elusive. Possibly a big fat narrative keeps getting in the way, a helping of ego, some dodgy dealings, wasn’t me scenario’s. Yup feeling a tad sarcastic

  3. It is diabolical in the wake of the aftermath of covid
    And the damage and carnage it has inflicted on this country – ongoing
    The number of people who still defend and praise Jacinda Ardern and her junta
    In their covid response and overreach amounting to what could be called fascism
    And who still bleat about “anti-vaxxers”?
    When all the evidence for those with eyes to see – to the contrary – points to corruption hypocrisy and lies
    And that the official narrative was nothing but a propaganda saturation campaign exercise sold and made possible through MSM
    These court jesters present nothing more than straw man arguments
    And still remain totally oblivious and incoherent as to the reality
    You really do have to wonder who and what is around You

    • “people who still defend and praise Jacinda Ardern and her junta”
      Yes, I see that too. People had their rights stripped away by Jacinda and her mob, and loved it.
      Likely those same people, bleeting about ant-vaxxers, are fully up to date with their boosters.
      I’ve watched people get booster after booster, almost evertime, contracting covid there after.
      More shots they get, they get sicker and sicker, some have passed away.
      I never got jabbed, had covid once in 2022. Feeling fine.

  4. Yes. The evil shenanigans of the 6th Labour Government are causing unprecedented health events, officially of gigantic proportions. Still, the lapdog Civil servants look right through the sick Elephant in Parliament. Distraction, waffle and clown 🤡 shows are what we get. Nothing will happen until revolution. Most are too docile to get up from their arm chair, much less fight for honesty.

  5. None of the pedo politicians took it, would that mean they all in on pre-meditated murder? YES
    It’s a crimescene, shut it down.

    We are closing in on the enemy now at a significant rate at which we cannot lose unless nuclear war, that is their final move.

    Main battle is with NATO, EU, UN, China and hinges around USA cutting ties NATO and UN amongst others. People see our polititians have sold their souls to this Nazi cult. And once the narrative is official in normal peoples minds they fall metaphysically to their own night of long knives.

    Don’t be black pilled. The propaganda wouldn’t be necesarry if the situation was hopeless.

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