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Worrying times for people 'dreading this winter'

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Kellie Tallant is not looking forward to the next few months. She has a rare lung condition that regularly lands her in hospital. "I'm dreading this winter," she says.

She knows all too well about the extra strains on the health service as the colder weather sets in. Last winter she spent 42 hours on a trolley in a corridor of an Emergency Department. "The only way to describe it is as mental and physical torture," she says. "Not only to be sick but to spend hours awake for 42 hours with no sleep because you're under bright lights.

There's a lot of commotion in the ED as you can imagine. It's mental and physical torture." Added to the situation this season of course is the fact that we're in a pandemic.

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