A consultant in emergency medicine at Altnagelvin Hospital says his department is overrun.
On Friday, Dr Baylis told the BBC that he had 34 cubicles for emergency patients at Altnagelvin.
"On Wednesday morning when I came in after the two bank holidays I had 50 people waiting for beds in a unit with 34 beds."Dr Paul Baylis is a consultant in emergency medicine at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry
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