A Welsh well being board has warned of ‘excessive strain’ and lengthy wait instances for sufferers throughout their hospital websites.

Hywel Dda College Well being Board have issued a message warning of extraordinarily busy hospitals with emergency and pressing care in excessive demand.

The well being board has requested that family and friends of sufferers who’re thought of effectively sufficient to go house ought to  ‘please assist us by coming to choose them up promptly’ so new sufferers could be admitted.

The well being board has additionally requested that sufferers solely attend an emergency division if they’ve a life threatening or severe harm.

Excessive demand

Sufferers with much less severe accidents resembling minor wounds, burns or international our bodies within the nostril or ear ought to go to one of many well being board’s minor harm items.

Anybody feeling unwell and in want of help ought to entry the NHS Wales symptom checker on-line.

The pressing message comes a number of weeks after nurses in Wales launched industrial motion over pay calls for amid a staffing disaster together with ambulance workers every week in the past.

Hywel Dda College Well being Board mentioned: “Our hospitals proceed to be extraordinarily busy with many sick sufferers and persevering with excessive demand for emergency and pressing care.

“This implies sufferers are ready longer than we’d need them to. We’re working arduous with colleagues, significantly from the Welsh Ambulance Companies Belief, and native authorities, and we’re seeing sufferers with the very best scientific wants first.