This shouldn't be happening
Campaigners say other workers are using plastic from B&Q to make masks or using plastic goggles from their kids’ schools. Advocacy group EveryDoctor’s Dr Julia Patterson told the‘By not providing intensive care staff with sufficient PPE, the Government is placing lives at risk. Guidance needs to be revised in line with World Health Organisation recommendations and the funds need to be spent. We are facing a humanitarian crisis.
Hancock has said said more than 742 million PPE items have been delivered so far during the outbreak.Matt Hancock said there was a ‘global squeeze’ on supply of the equipment NHS staff need He added: ‘We’ve brought together the NHS, private industry and the Army – in fact, the armed forces – to create a giant PPE distribution network on an unprecedented scale.’
He said a challenge was being faced by the health service due to a ‘huge international demand’ for equipment and a ‘global squeeze’ on supply. A total of 8,958 people in the UK have now died with coronavirus with 980 losing their lives between Thursday and Friday.
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