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Zaslal: Po apríl 19, 2021 7:00 am Predmet: Covid: Rebuilding Wales' NHS 'could be bigger challenge than |
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Covid: Rebuilding Wales' NHS 'could be bigger challenge than pandemic'
Rebuilding ดาวน์โหลด slotxo the NHS after Covid could be a bigger challenge than the pandemic itself, leading doctors have said.
Surgeons say a "radical rethink" of the way hospitals work is needed, while doctors said tackling backlogs would be a "huge challenge" for exhausted staff.
Meanwhile, cancer charities fear the disruption will lead to a surge in deaths, particularly in Wales.
They all agree getting the NHS back on its feet will be the biggest challenge faced by an incoming Welsh government.
Amid these warnings, academics said difficult choices would have to be made on where money was spent.
BBC Wales health correspondent Owain Clarke has been looking at some of the key health issues facing whoever wins the Senedd election on 6 May.
Richard Pugh, head of Macmillan Cancer Support in Wales, said places like his Rhymney hometown recorded some of Wales' highest coronavirus case rates.
Mr Pugh said that happened because "huge" inequalities already existed.
In communities like his, in Caerphilly county, Mr Pugh said "we all know each other".
"I could point to you people's houses where sadly they've lost someone because of Covid," he said.
"When we lose one of us we lose something about the community itself."
Mr Pugh has lived in the town all of his life. |
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