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'Tired to the bone': US hospitals are overwhelmed
Updated On: 20 November, 2020 08:10 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
We are depressed, disheartened and tired to the bone, said Alison Johnson, director of critical care at Johnson City Medical Center in Tennessee
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A nurse helps another with her PPE in Wisconsin. File pic/AP
Overwhelmed hospitals in the US are converting chapels, cafeterias, waiting rooms, hallways, even a parking garage into patient treatment areas. Staff members are desperately calling around to other medical centres in search of open beds. Fatigue and frustration are setting in among front-line workers.
"We are depressed, disheartened and tired to the bone," said Alison Johnson, director of critical care at Johnson City Medical Center in Tennessee.
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