A recent debate between Piers Morgan and Matt Hancock was filled with fumes on Good Morning Britain as NHS or National Health Service staff reveal that nurses don't feel protected due to the fact that they have to share masks! The coronavirus (COVID-19) has started to spread around the world and is rapidly growing still.
A medical worker, wearing a protective face mask and a protective suit, works in a pulmonology unit at the hospital in Vannes where patients suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are treated, France, March 20, 2020.
The global shortage of supplies is due to the increasing demand for face masks, which were originally manufactured for the medical personnel but have recently been used by individuals for private security reasons.
Piers accusations towards the government
According to Piers, the Health Secretary is misleading the British public and unable to protect the very NHS workers who battle the virus. Matt Hancock has just denied that the government was ever planning to deploy a herd immunity strategy and also added that the frontline medics were the top priority.
Piers then claimed that the NHS was being "run over" and that the government was "woefully ill-prepared" when it comes to dealing with this pandemic. The most striking sentence was, "The nurses don't feel protected" --this sums up the entirety of the whole situation.
According to Piers, "Why is it that Spain, France, Italy, Belgium; all these other countries around us in Europe are in almost total lockdown and we see these catastrophically stupid scenes across the country...we've seen all weekend people going out partying like it's a bank holiday. "
The nurses and medical personnel affected
Nurses within the Hillingdon Hospital are reported working 36-hour shifts that is within the Prime Minister's constituency. These nurses have come out and said that they have to wash, reuse, and even share masks while taking care of patients who have been tested positive of the coronavirus!
The Doctors' Association chairman by the name of Dr. Rinesh Parmar made an appeal to Boris Johnsonexpressing that nurses and doctors feel like "cannon fodder" due to the lack of kits and other protective equipment.
A letter was then written as a follow up in the Sunday Times, stating that almost 4,000 NHS workers have been expressing their concerns to the Prime Minister to "protect the lives of the life-savers" by resolving the "unacceptable" shortage of necessary protective equipment.
Actions being currently taken
According to NHS England, millions of other PPE items had been delivered to hospitals, ambulance trusts, care homes, and etc. over the last few days. Aside from PPEs being delivered, the army would also "play its part" by offering help in the distribution of the supplies.
According to the Health Secretary, there have been signed new laws over the recent weekend that which has given the police power to enforce bans towards pubs, clubs, and restaurants as well.
Piers has pointed out that herd immunity has been their constant choice of strategy, but Matt Hancock has been adamant and consistently denying that it has ever been the strategy.
