A patient with breathing difficulties on Christmas Day describes his ordeal waiting for treatment.
He added: "Everyone was over 60, just roughing it.""There were too many patients and not enough staff," he said."What I find frustrating is the amount of bed blockers there."
He said staff "went above and beyond what was expected of them", but added management needed to put better plans in place when A&E was at full capacity. It said that nearly 280 patients in Swansea Bay hospitals - covering Swansea and Neath Port Talbot - were currently medically well enough to leave - but for "a number of reasons" could not go.
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