NMPD Director: "Mondays are a big challenge" - ambulance queues form at hospitals
Liene Cipule, director of the Emergency Medical Service (NMPD), says that on Mondays queues of ambulances often form at hospitals, and on June 8 at Pauls Stradins Hospital, brigades waited almost two hours to hand over a patient.
According to NMPD director Liene Cipule, Mondays are particularly challenging with ambulance queues at hospital admission departments. During the program "Spried ar Delfi", she stated that the situation on June 8 at Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital was not an exception – brigades waited almost two hours to hand over a patient. Cipule noted that such occurrences are not rare, and often 7-8 brigades get stuck at the hospital. Although on June 8 there were more than ten brigades, such large-scale congestion is not daily, but smaller queues happen frequently.
