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| English: Elizabeth Rothwell Building, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Dr Bonning said mental health services were similarly inundated. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Synthetic drug users are holding up worthy emergency cases in hospital emergency departments across the country, a senior doctor says.
A "considerable increase" in patients still high or coming down from products such as K2 presenting themselves at emergency departments (EDs) was putting medical staff under added stress as they tried to prioritise, Waikato Hospital emergency department clinical director Dr John Bonning said.
Many were simply worried or paranoid, rather than physically unwell, he said
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