The number of patients attending the accident and emergency department at Monklands Hospital has halved during the coronavirus lockdown.NHS figures show that there were 587 attendances at the Airdrie hospital’s casualty department in the week ending April 5 – 49 per cent of the number four weeks earlier, and comparing to its normal seven-day figure of around 1300.A similar plummeting trend has been seen at all of NHS Lanarkshire’s acute hospitals and across Scotland as a whole in the month since the first announcement of social distancing, followed a week later by the government lockdown announcement.Monklands Hospital saw 1344 patients – nearly 200 per day – at its emergency department in the week ending March 8, the period in which the
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