What’s the critical incident at Watford hospital?

[Momrose12]

Public are being asked to not go there. Does anyone know what happened??

Is that in EastEnders?

I'm abroad....

Presumably they've run out of beds or ventilators or ICU space

Sorry, read it as Walford

Otherwise no, no idea. Sorry.

Hospitals declare a critical incident when they don’t have enough capacity to take more patients. It doesn’t mean something specific has happened. It means the surrounding hospitals and the ambulance trust will be alerted and they’ll prepare to divert patients.

It’s not that uncommon, but it will be more newsworthy at the moment.

The can't take any more people into A&E at the moment. Presumably they're full.

Presumably we're about to see the Nightingale Hospital take on patients.

They have limited oxygen supplies left

The dam is about to burst is what this means.

EVERYONE STAY AT HOME!!!!!!!!

The dam is about to burst is what this means.

FGS. Hospitals, especially those in cities, have critical incidents where they can't take any more patients all the time. All it takes is a bad car crash some times. Calm down.

Will they move recovering people to nightingale or divert any new cases there?

My local hospital think they have till Monday at this current pace till they are full. Its all overwhelmingly horrific

Fuck, the veterinary industry have been asked to minimise use of O2 (remember this is used in anaesthesia) in case the nhs need it. Looks like that may happen.

I hope you are right Luna

But I suspect I’m right here unfortunately 😕

They don’t often run low on oxygen though Luna.

The dam is about to burst is what this means

Fucksake stop with the catastrophising. It isn't unknown for hospitals to close.

Silver get your head out of the sand, is this not a catastrophe to you?!

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

They don’t usually have a respiratory pandemic either

Not enough oxygen to be able to supply to all the patients who need it via the hospital infrastructure, and a canister only lasts each patient 30 mins. They have literally reached capacity for the number of covid patients they can care for.

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay. Sorry I see you were sort of saying the same thing 🌷

sounds serious enough to me!

They’re asking all emergency patients to go to other hospitals as they’ve run out of oxygen!

Fortunately LEM we’ve had a little more time to prepare as we know it happened in Italy and Spain.

They have been worrying about the limited oxygen for a while now

Hancock promised it wouldn’t be a problem. - needs to get his finger out if his area and get this sorted.