Cancer patients may die as a result of Covid-19 patients not being turned away from hospitals, Northern Ireland's Health Minister has admitted.
Robin Swann said the "black and white" reality was that the health service would not turn away people with coronavirus requiring admission to hospital, but that other services were being cut as a consequence.
The Ulster Unionist MLA admitted that he was "heartbroken" that nurses and doctors were finding themselves having to make moral and ethical decisions between coronavirus patients and very sick patients with other conditions.
He added that these decisions "have to be made because of the fact that we have over 400 beds within our hospitals being used to support Covid-19 patients". "The ethical