Top medic says doctors and nurses feel like coronavirus ‘CANNON FODDER’ without protective gear

‘They feel like lambs to the slaughter’: Top medic says doctors and nurses feel like they are coronavirus ‘CANNON FODDER’ with a lack of tests and protective equipment for frontline NHS staff, in appeal to Boris Johnson

  • Doctors’ Association chairman Dr Rinesh Parmar made a direct appeal to PM
  • He said NHS staff are still not getting the protective equipment they need
  • Told BBC: ‘We have had doctors tell us they feel like lambs to the slaughter’
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Doctors and nurses risking their lives every day to treat coronavirus patients feel like ‘cannon fodder’ because of a lack of protective equipment and testing kits, a top medic warned today.

Doctors’ Association chairman Dr Rinesh Parmar made a direct appeal to Boris Johnson today as he urged him to divert more resources to hospital staff fighting to hold back a flood of cases and save lives.

Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Programme he said  NHS staff dealing with the coronavirus outbreak are still not getting the protective equipment they need. 

‘We have had doctors tell us they feel like lambs to the slaughter, that they feel like cannon fodder. GPs tell us that they feel absolutely abandoned,’ he said. 

‘We are all pleading with Boris Johnson that they really look into arranging the vital personal protection equipment that all of us need on the NHS frontline.

Doctors’ Association chairman Dr Rinesh Parmar made a direct appeal to Boris Johnson today as he urged him to divert more resources to hospital staff fighting to hold back a flood of cases and save lives

Appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr Programme he said:  'We are all pleading with Boris Johnson that they really look into arranging the vital personal protection equipment that all of us need on the NHS frontline'

Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Programme he said:  ‘We are all pleading with Boris Johnson that they really look into arranging the vital personal protection equipment that all of us need on the NHS frontline’

‘What our doctors are telling us is that although equipment is arriving, some of it is inadequate, some of it doesn’t meet the World Health Organisation guidance.

‘That really doesn’t fill front-line healthcare staff with the confidence that they need.’

It came as seven more people in Wales have died after contracting the coronavirus, taking the UK total to 240 amid a widening social clampdown on movement. 

 Earlier Jeremy Hunt, the former health secretary and current chairman of the Health Select Committee, told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday that the NHS has ‘moved heaven and earth’ to get protective equipment to every hospital.

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