Patients are waiting for days in corridors at the Royal Victoria Hospital's emergency department, according to RCN_NI.
Speaking to Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Ms Devlin said while it was the Royal Hospital on Thursday, the situation is "bad right across the EDs"."I spoke to some young, newly qualified nurses who are leaving because they just can't take the stress and the pressure any more," she said.Image caption,"We've a reduction in beds, right across Northern Ireland, we don't have enough staff to look after the patients and it's just scandalous.
Ms Devlin said Northern Ireland's politicians need to return to the executive - which collapsed in February 2022 - and start addressing the problems in the healthcare sector. "We are extremely concerned about the mental health and wellbeing of a lot of our nursing staff, sickness levels are really high," she said.
"I don't understand how politicians can sit back and let this happen without doing something to intervene and get us back to a position where people in Northern Ireland get the healthcare they deserve."
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