The UK response to Covid-19 [MOD WARNING 1ST POST]

Andy Howe, 48

Andy Howe worked on the Medilink service, which took NHS workers and patients to hospital. He died on the way to hospital after falling ill, his employer said.

A spokesman for the RMT union said: “We are saddened by the news of Andy’s passing. “We’re also angered by the reports we have received about a lack of duty of care for Andy, his colleagues and the wider public.”

He said this included reports of toilets and buses not being cleaned properly, and a lack of protective screens or masks.

Thomas Harvey, 57

Thomas Harvey caught the coronavirus and died after treating patients with only gloves for protection, according to his family.

It is claimed Harvey fell ill after helping a patient who later tested positive for Covid-19 and eventually died on 29 March. He had been signed off work more than two weeks earlier when he developed symptoms including a cough, shortness of breath and body aches.

His family said that if he had had the correct personal protective equipment, he might still be alive. Goodmayes hospital claimed there were “no symptomatic patients on the ward”. However, a former colleague told the BBC that Harvey contracted the virus after treating a patient who later tested positive.

John Alagos, 23

John Alagos is believed to be the youngest medic in the UK to die from coronavirus. His mother, Gina Gustilo, said her son fell ill during a 12-hour shift but was allegedly not allowed to return home due to short-staffing.

She told the Mail on Sunday: “I asked: ‘Why didn’t you come home?’ He said he had asked other staff but they said they were short of staff and they did not let him go.”

Rebecca Mack, 29

Rebecca Mack, from Morpeth in Northumberland, had worked as a children’s nurse at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary before going on to a job with NHS 111. She had no known health problems, and fell ill after a work training session in Derby.

She was self-isolating alone at her home when her symptoms worsened. Mack called for an ambulance and left the door open for paramedics. They found her dead in her home, her mother, Marion, told the Newcastle Chronicle.

Julie Omar, 52

A highly experienced trauma and orthopaedic nurse, Julie Omar had been self-isolating at home after developing symptoms, Worcestershire acute hospitals NHS trust said. Her condition deteriorated and she died at home.

Amor Padilla Gatinao, 50

Amor Padilla Gatinao had worked in the NHS for 18 years, and her husband, Mario, said he believed she caught the virus while working at St Charles hospital. Speaking to Sky News, he said: “Our youngest child is 14 years old and it is so hard. The pain is unbearable.

“I called the ambulance and they came to the house but refused to admit her to the hospital. They told her to take paracetamol. Her whole body was in pain. She couldn’t eat. She was diabetic and also had a heart condition.

“I don’t know why the government did not do more to protect NHS workers, like my wife. She was neglected. My children’s lives will never be the same again.”

meeeeh wrote: »

They didn't ask for charity, he wanted to do it.

NHS a monstrosity of an organization and there were warnings before that it is very hard to run such a huge system efficiently. Cuts are nowhere near the only reason there are issues with NHS. Part of the problem is that NHS is such a national treasure beyond reproach. Nobody managed to look across borders and see better health systems in Europe ran with less money. This crisis just exposed the deficiencies more.

bilston wrote: »

The NHS seems to be handling the crisis pretty well. There seems to be plenty of capacity left if required.

PPE is a major problem, but correct me if I'm wrong, but is that not the case everywhere?

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Dont know in either case tbh. It doesnt necessarily imply anything dodgy but it does beg serious questions as these are decisions that bore huge implications and will have big effects on the uk's efforts to ease restrictions.

Doctors are asked to use the standard MCCD (Medical Certificate of Cause of Death) form to certify death. ‘Pneumonia ‘or ‘community acquired pneumonia’ are acceptable at 1(a) on the MCCD. There is no requirement to write COVID 19 as part of the MCCD. It may be mentioned at 1(b) on the form, should the doctor wish.

Memnoch wrote: »

NHS trusts have been giving guidance to doctors to dissuade them from writing Covid-19 on death certificates.

https://goodlawproject.org/covid-19-deaths/



I don't see how anyone can still have even an iota of doubt that the British government are deliberately suppressing the true mortality statistics of this pandemic.

You would expect something like this in Russia or Brazil, not the in UK.

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

This is the UK we are talking about! The truth won't come out until years after everyone responsible is safely dead.

Think Iraq war, Hillsborough, Bloody Sunday.

It is not in the interests of the couple of thousand Eton/Oxbridge types who run the Government, opposition, press and civil service that the public learns anything, ever, and the public think they are being looked after by the toffs and boffins who are good at that stuff so the public can watch the footie and fight outside clubs on a Saturday.

Joe_ Public wrote: »

its hundreds of uk citizens dying each day.