Overcrowding at Mater Dei Hospital has reached “alarming levels” and is hitting staff and patients badly, according to the head of the nurses’ union.

“Patients will eventually die in this crisis,” claimed Paul Pace, president of the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses.

Patients at the Day Care Unit were packed like sardines yesterday, with 59 beds in a ward which usually takes 15, sources told Times of Malta.

Another 140 patients were spread out in corridors, ward extensions and side wards around the Emergency Department.

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