Healthcare unions warn that hospital emergency rooms are already under severe strain due to the flu.

Unions such as Doctors of Catalonia and the largest nurses' union, SATSE, are reporting that hospital emergency rooms are already under severe strain due to the flu, even though this is only the beginning of the epidemic. The increase is currently seen in pediatric emergency rooms, although it is expected that the same will occur in adult emergency rooms within about 10 days.

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