Bed crunch at Singapore hospitals: Some patients stuck in emergency

There are days when the situation is so bad that an ambulance arriving is unable to discharge the patient for lack of space. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The bed crunch in public hospitals is so severe that it has spilled over to their emergency departments, many of which stay packed with patients because there is no room to move them elsewhere.

Emergency department (ED) doctors say there are days when the situation is so bad that an ambulance arriving is unable to discharge the patient for lack of space. Instead, the medical team has to assess the patients while they are on the ambulance trolley.