Hospital beds filled to capacity

The female pedestrian involved in this morning's auto-pedestrian accident in Barrigada is one of nine patients in the Guam Memorial Hospital's emergency room who are waiting for a bed up in one of the hospital's wards.

May 4, 2010Updated: May 4, 2010
KUAM NewsBy KUAM News

by Mindy Aguon

Guam - The female pedestrian involved in this morning's auto-pedestrian accident in Barrigada is one of nine patients in the Guam Memorial Hospital's emergency room who are waiting for a bed up in one of the hospital's wards.  GMH Spokesperson Connor Murphy confirms that GMH has reached its current bed capacity for all adult units that include the surgical and medical telemetry wards and the Intensive Care Unit. 

The hospital has been full to capacity for several days now and at one point, Murphy says 17 people were waiting for a bed.  That number has since been reduced to 9 individuals waiting for a room at the hospital that expects to