Name: Health Secretary: 'UK is taking actions earlier' than Italy
Uploaded: 2020-03-24T05:20:06.000Z
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Can you tell me first of all, what the position is on personal protective equipment?

Yes, the personal protective equipment is being driven out to all n hs and social care settings as we speak.

There's a massive logistical operation underway, and I understand just how important it is.

And I feel very strongly about that that when we're asking people in the N hs two put themselves in harm's way to care for Russell, then it's our duty to get them the equipment that they need.

Of course I do, and we've put in place a help line so you can phone in if you haven't got access to it.

So there still might be people at the end of today, the end of tomorrow.

Hospitals where the kitty isn't isn't deployed.

It's not that well, we've put out a delivery toe, every hospital Andi that was defended it go, but that was dispatched from Friday over Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

But the N HS, with 1.4 million workers, is a very big place and making sure that you get from the right masks to the right people at the right time.

We've been delivering this to the hospital that they've been short for weeks.

People have been saying there's concern for weeks We've been delivering this to the hospitals over over the last few weeks because we've obviously been able to see that the growth of the virus.

While we're also taking the actions to tryto Thio clamp down on that on dhe.

I've now brought the military in to help improve the delivery of that.

This is this is this is improper, isn't it?

Putting in a chest stuff in danger like this?

Well, I understand very deeply, but what went wrong?

Well, I understand my responsibility to get this right and to make sure that people get the equipment they need.

I think what's happened is that understandably, over the last week or so, the demand for use of the protective equipment has gone up very sharp.

That's what that's what an exponential pandemic is all about, isn't it?

We knew from the middle of January when the W.

Well, it has been we've been working on this.

Well, when you say they at the end, a chest off, we're constantly delivering Maur equipment.

We've got to keep ahead of the need for it that there is in hospitals.

And I'm working 24 7 on making that happen.

There are other countries where an awful lot of testing seems to happen and they seem to If you look at some figures, have got a bit more on top of things.

They seem to have a good story to tell from testing, and yet we're not doing it everywhere.

Well, we're increasing testing as fast as we can, and critically, we're buying some of the new tests that don't need the sample to go to the lab to get the result.

But instead, they're essentially a home test.

Yes, because they're really just been invented.

Some of them have been around for a bit longer than that, and we'll do.

Now we've been buying them over the past weeks.

This is something that we've been working on the whole way through.

The heart of the challenge is to keep the testing numbers going.

Oh, to make sure as many people as possible who need it, the especially their the patients in critical care units.

And also that the clinicians, the doctors, nurses who are still not getting tested as we speak.

Of course, the demand for is very, very sharp, but other countries are on top of it.

They've got hundreds of thousands of the test going on the Spanish or doing much more than us.

We know more happened in South Korea and in China.

Do we have a different philosophical approach to this?

No, we're doing Maur than many other countries on Dhe.

There's a huge race on to get as much testing is possible.

We didn't think it was a good idea for, and that's why we're behind.

We've been ramping up the testing as much as possible, as fast as possible.

We started with around 5000 in the N hs, and we've now bought so that we've got over 12,000.

But we're still buying on the call to arms that we put out to say manufacturing capacity needs to be turned over to ventilators.

Yeah, but again, the W H O in the middle of January said yes.

You never thought 5000 respirators would do it, did you?

So the number has been going up a ll that time as we've been buying ventilators.

And the other thing that we've been doing over all of that time is training staff.

Because a ventilator is a highly technical piece of equipment on it needs toe, have highly trained staff to make sure that people air safe using it.

But we could be woefully short of ventilators as things stand right now.

Well, at the money, how many do you think At the moment we have the ventilators that we need and we're buying Maur on.

Frankly, I could put a target on it, but I know number is too high.

We want as many ventilators we could get our hands on disposable people wonder about was there this period between the middle of January, when the w h o say this thing is coming towards you and where we all now, maybe even the whole of February were not enough was done.

The grip was not got on the sort of supplies that would be needed in this kind of fancy.

The supplies that we've got, for instance, on the protective equipment are vast.

The challenge you just haven't gotten them out.

But Amazon can get a kettle to you the next day.

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