Don’t all rush back to A&E warns medic
PLEA Dr Chris Srinivasan
AN NHS doctor who appears in an A&E documentary series says he hopes it will encourage people to think carefully before seeking emergency care.
Dr Chris Srinivasan said patient numbers are rising again after dropping at the start of the pandemic, when people stayed away.
When A&E: After Dark was filmed at Hull Royal Infirmary prior to the outbreak, staff were seeing 400 patients a day.
Now it is back up to around 300, he said. He added: “Sometimes people are better self-caring.
“But at the same time, what we don’t want is for people who have severe life-threatening problems to be at home when they really need to be with us.” ■ A&E: After Dark, Channel 5, tonight at 9pm.
Family home and landslide in Eastchurch, Kent, yesterday
A HOUSE is teetering over a precipice after two landslides that have left a shocked family homeless.
Mum-of five Emma Tullett, 42, paid £195,000 for the two-bedroom bungalow in 2018 after being told the property would be safe for another 40 years.
But on Friday she was watching TV when her house – named Cliffhanger – started shaking. She quickly rounded up her family and fled to safety.
She said: “I heard this crackling and crunching and then you could tell the cliffs were gone. We grabbed the kids and the teenagers from the annex, and just said get whatever you can.”
Yesterday, after a further, much bigger landslide, Emma was told that her car and home were effectively gone.
She said: “Half of our house fell off the cliff. All that’s left is the living room, a bedroom, kitchen and the hallway. We’ve
House hangs over cliff, while car came to rest at the bottom
Mum Emma lost everything.” After the first collapse, firefighters evacuated 20 homes in Eastchurch, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent.
Some residents were later allowed to return but Emma’s home and three others remain off limits.
The family, who fled with just their phones and the clothes on their backs, are now in temporary accommodation.
Emma, a Co-op assistant manager, claims a Swale Borough Council employee told her in 2018 that the property would be standing for another 40 years thanks to a £30,000 scheme to plant grass and trees in the area.
Emma said she did not have insurance on her home, adding: “You couldn’t get insured for a house falling off a cliff.”
Parish councillor Malcolm Newell, who owns two of the evacuated homes, said: “We’ve been trying to get the authorities to do something about the cliffs for years.”