Huge PPE shipment of 400,000, gowns flown from Turkey is 'useless'

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Huge PPE shipment of 400,000, gowns flown from Turkey is 'useless'
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Hailed as the answer to Britain's crippling PPE shortages, the shipment is now sitting in a warehouse after failing UK safety standards.

‘We are working night and day to source PPE internationally and domestically and brought together the NHS, industry and the Armed Forces to create a comprehensive PPE distribution network to deliver critical supplies to the front line.‘All deliveries of PPE are checked to ensure the equipment meets the safety and quality standards our frontline staff need. If equipment does not meet our specifications or pass our quality assurance processes, it is not distributed to the front line.

Speaking on Sky News, Mr Lewis said: ‘Well when we’re securing PPE from around the world you do it based on a set of standards that you’re looking to acquire to, but obviously once it’s here we check that it is good enough for what we want to use and in this instance some of this PPE turned out not to be good enough.”

‘I think it is right that if we have got particular standards for what we want our frontline staff to be able to have access to we make sure we stick to that.

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