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London hospital in 'disaster medicine mode' and 'can't provide high standard care' due to surge in coronavirus patients

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direct to your inbox A hospital is in 'disaster medicine mode' and unable to provide 'high standard critical care' because it is understaffed and swamped by Covid-19 patients.

A campaigning doctor revealed on Twitter that the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel had sent an email to notify staff of the dire situation.

The leaked email warned that the Royal London has only one nurse for every three Covid patients being treated in intensive care, the Mirror Online reports.

It comes a day after senior medics at the east London hospital urged bosses to declare a major incident because staff were at a "breaking point" as the number of coronavirus patients tripled in just five days - from 200 on Christmas Eve to 638 on Tuesday.

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