We are relying on courageous NHS staff to help us through this terrible Covid-19 crisis. So many would say we have a duty to listen to their concerns and anxieties.
And as you will be aware, and as the chief executive of St George’s University Hospital’s Jac Totterdell has made explicit, lots of doctors and nurses do not feel that they are being given the appropriate protective clothing.
A leading consultant has explained the issue to me. It is probably best if I just use the consultant’s own words.
‘All we get are little plastic aprons that don’t cover your arms or neck or back or lower legs. And no facial protection, yet patients are coughing all over you.
‘Then you walk through the hospital covered in (the) bug. Which as we know can live for days on surfaces…And we are therefore basically all super-spreaders’.
There are related points made by this and other doctors.
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