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Our Governments Are Squandering Our Most Precious Resource
My Government is failing to keep UK health workers safe during the pandemic and now they’re accusing them of being part of the problem.
I didn’t intend my first non-fiction Medium post to be political, or even about the coronavirus, but I can no longer hold in the anger I feel towards my Government.
Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for the United Kingdom, has released a video statement this morning and I am incandescent with rage.
Matt Hancock has never been viewed as the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. Now, however, he has implied that health care workers should be more prudent in their use of personal protective equipment. It is a scarce resource and should not be overused, he says.
The Royal College of Nursing immediately dismissed the idea that staff are overusing or abusing PPE. Dame Donna Kinnair, the RCN’s general secretary, appeared on Radio 4’s Today Programme and later on BBC’s Breakfast.
She was hearing every day from nurses that they did not have enough PPE and said that no PPE was ‘more precious a resource than a health care worker’s life, a nurse’s life, a doctor’s life’.
