Patient numbers at the emergency department at University Hospital Monklands have reached their highest figure since before the coronavirus lockdown.There were 1144 attendances at the Airdrie casualty department in the first week of this month, followed by 1064 in the week ending on June 14.Monklands’ 1041 casualty patients two weeks earlier, in the seven-day period ending on May 31, was the first time there had been more than 1000 patients through its doors in a week for nearly three months.Staff would ordinarily see around 1300 patients per week, but the figure began reducing during March and plummeted after social distancing and then the full lockdown were announced.Numbers halved to just 587 patients in the week ending on April 5, the.
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