In COVID-swamped Texas, patients die stranded in rural clinics eNCA
Wilkinson, 46, lived only 90 minutes by car or 30 minutes by helicopter from Houston, renowned for its top-flight hospitals. The problem is the Texas health care system has been utterly overwhelmed by people suffering from the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
He was admitted August 21 to the only hospital in his county, a block from his home in the town of Bellville, population 4,000. "Our emergency room doctor at that time actually went on Facebook trying to get him transferred," said Bonk Fache. "We 'lose' a nurse essentially every day, because that nurse has to call all of the hospitals in the surrounding areas to prove that we are doing our due diligence to get them elsewhere," said Renee Poulter, who manages the nursing staff at the Bellville clinic.
"We have a critical, ICU-level Covid-positive patient at our rural facility that we have been taking care of for 11 days because we cannot find him a higher level of care," said Poulter.
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