Flu season problems for the NHS in Wales

With flu season in full swing, we’re asking people around Cardiff if they’ve had any experience this year and whether they’re concerned for the NHS.

Transcript

00:00I know loads of people in hospital. Do they need to be in hospital?

00:05Hospitals can't cope. Where do we go from here?

00:09Yeah, so I'm type 1 diabetic myself, so I have to be flu-jabbed

00:14and obviously keep up to date on vaccines.

00:17Well, I'm a pensioner, you know, like all other pensioners,

00:20and lots of other people have a flu jab, which is preventive.

00:23I don't suppose that eliminates you completely,

00:26but, yeah, that's a little bit of a worry, yeah,

00:29especially when it affects the NHS so much.

00:33My nan has had problems with the flu, and she just...

00:38I mean, how long she's lived through the NHS and its ups and its downs,

00:42she's given up at the end of the day.

00:44She just kind of sits at home and takes paracetamol and complains.

00:48But that's all she can really do because she has reduced mobility.

00:53She doesn't feel it's worth it nowadays to walk to the GP

00:58just to be told to come back.