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Hospital’s critical care unit overwhelmed by coronavirus patients
醫院的重症監護病房裏擠滿了冠狀病毒患者


A major London hospital declared a “critical incident” due to a surge in
patients with coronavirus, with one senior director in the capital calling
the development “petrifying”.

由於冠狀病毒患者激增，倫敦一家大型醫院宣佈了一起“嚴重事件”，首都一名高級主任
稱事態發展“令人震驚”。

In a message to staff on Thursday night, Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow
said it had no critical care capacity left and was contacting neighbouring
hospitals about transferring patients who need critical care to other sites.



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https://i.imgur.com/Tq3J45Q.png
這家醫院在倫敦的哈羅(Harrow)區，其實已經不在倫敦的核心地帶，而在郊外，靠近
Wembley。附近最接近的地鐵站是Northwick Park。
https://i.imgur.com/IgazzrU.png
誇張的是，這間醫院在Google Map上的評價只有2.7。
https://i.imgur.com/g0TVr0O.png


The message, seen by HSJ, said: “I am writing to let you know that we have
this evening declared a ‘critical incident’ in relation to our critical
care capacity at Northwick Park Hospital. This is due to an increasing number
of patients with Covid-19.

HSJ看到的消息稱:“我寫信是想告訴你，我們今晚宣佈諾斯威克公園醫院的緊急護理能力
出現了‘危急事件’。這是由於越來越多的COVID-19患者。

“This means that we currently do not have enough space for patients
requiring critical care.

“這意味着我們目前沒有足夠的空間給需要重症監護的病人。

“As part of our system resilience plans, we have contacted our partners in
the North West London sector this evening to assist with the safe transfer of
patients off of the Northwick Park site”

“作爲我們的系統恢復計劃的一部分，我們今晚已經聯繫了我們在西北倫敦區的合作伙伴
，以協助將病人安全轉移出北威克公園”

The trust said the incident was stood down at 4pm on Friday, as they were
able to open some more critical care beds. It has not yet stated how many new
beds were opened.

可信賴來源表示，事故結束在週五下午4點，因爲他們終於能夠開放更多的重症監護床。
它還沒有說明新開了多少床位。

The hospital is run by London North West University Healthcare Trust, which
has reported six deaths related to coronavirus, all at Northwick Park.

該醫院由倫敦西北大學醫療信託基金管理，該基金已經報告了6例與冠狀病毒相關的死亡
，均發生在諾斯威克公園。

The potential lack of critical care beds in England has been the major
concern around coronavirus, and trusts are currently repurposing wards and
retraining staff to try and create more capacity. National leaders have
suggested the number of critical care beds likely needs to rise by several
times.



A senior director at another London acute trust told HSJ: “Given we’re in
the low foothills of this virus, this is f***ing petrifying.

另一家倫敦信託公司的高級主管告訴HSJ:“考慮到我們還處在這種病毒的低谷期，這真
是他媽的令人害怕。

“The thing people aren’t really talking about yet is that we are going to
have to quickly agree some clinical thresholds for admissions to intensive
care. This is what the Italians have had to do, and whether its set at [a
maximum age of] 60 or whatever, we are going to have to do something similar.
There’s no way we’re going to be able to scale up to the level we need
otherwise.



“The trusts in outer London seem to be hit much worse at the moment,
probably about two weeks ahead of the rest of the country. Barnet, Lewisham
and Greenwich, Epsom and St Helier, North Middlesex and Hillingdon are all
struggling.



“I was in denial about the seriousness of this virus a couple of weeks ago,
but not anymore.

“幾週前我否認了這種病毒的嚴重性，但現在不是了。

“I’m now on calls with commissioners about getting more people out of
hospital and into the community, and they’re saying ’yes that’ll be done
in the next week’, and I’m on the verge of screaming at them. Things are
going completely nuts.

“我現在正與委員們討論如何讓更多的人走出醫院，進入社區，他們說‘是的，這將在下
週完成’，我幾乎要對他們大喊大叫了。”事情完全亂套了。

“And there’s a real problem with private care homes refusing to take
patients back unless they’ve been tested for covid-19. But that’s not the
national guidance currently and there just aren’t enough testing kits to do
it.”


“私人療養院拒絕接收病人，除非他們接受了COVID-19檢測，這確實是個問題。但這不是
國家目前的指導，只是沒有足夠的檢驗工具來做這件事。”


A spokeswoman for LNWHT said: “Critical care capacity for patients with
coronavirus is being organised on a cross-London basis so that hospitals and
organisations work together to deliver the best possible care for patients.

LNWHT的一位女發言人說:“針對冠狀病毒患者的緊急護理能力正在跨倫敦的基礎上進行組
織，以便醫院和組織共同努力爲患者提供最好的可能的護理。”

“This kind of coordinated, flexible response is one of the NHS’s strengths
but with staff pulling out all the stops they need the public to play their
part too, by following the expert guidance on washing your hands, staying at
home and using health services responsibly.”




心得：我自己也在英國求學過，那邊的醫院真是災難，就連自己國民的人萬不得已也不會
去醫院，請大家體諒這些從英國回來的留學生與上班族。

英國網友表示：

這就是當你讓 @鮑里斯· 強森領導 @保守黨 政府時所發生的事情。他們不在乎。他們
似乎希望這一切發生。
今天英格蘭又有39人死亡。總數爲167例。英國總數即將公佈。


爲什麼我們不接管飯店、其他建築，甚至白金漢宮，以增加應急能力?
如果醫院的空間不夠了，我們應該馬上就會爆滿。


當你考慮到英國在曲線上比義大利落後13天時，這是一個可怕的發展。
https://i.imgur.com/yCWxNUV.png


地鐵和公車應該被關閉。移掉交通工具，人們別無選擇，只能呆在原地。另外，不管市
長怎麼說，地鐵是傳播細菌的理想場所





把這個寄給鮑里斯· 強森，他可能會決定在兩週內關閉這些酒吧。你可能沒有投他的票
，但你必須對付這個星球上最糟糕的政治領袖之一。就是無能。


我的女兒和家人住在南威爾士的布里真德。她說，該市將利用一個劇院作爲額外的醫院。


觀點:我爸爸80多歲了，嚴重的骨質疏鬆，嚴重的背部痙攣，所以我們去了急診室。因爲
沒有床位，他不得不在走廊上躺了48個小時。這是4年前發生的事。


我出生在那家醫院。他們現在面臨着一場大戰。英國還會後悔選了小丑強森(Johnson)
。
如果你想知道他在哪裡，我肯定他會像往常一樣躲在最近的冰箱裏。

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