Name: NHS staff risking their lives due to PPE shortage, says British Medical Association
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P P e is at the heart of our fight against Corona virus, shielding the doctors and nurses on the front lines who are protecting us all.

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So reports of widespread peopIe shortages a stirring fears with growing numbers of doctors, nurses infected and even dying Dr Missions Joshi, just coming off his night shift, is now having toe work.

80 hour weeks to cover for sick colleagues were all filling in for sickness gaps, and it means that our exposure is going to be much higher on.

It's going to be with inadequate peopIe so you can take a guess at what's gonna happen to people like myself and my colleagues over the next few weeks.

The likelihood is that we're going to get more sick more often and that we're going to face even more critical staff shortages.

Channel four News has seen e mails from two N.

H S trust, which raise concern of the critical P P E shortages as earlier is this weekend.

That's internal email from London Northwest University.

Health Care Trust warns that surgical gowns are running critically low.

They also say we cannot guarantee when we receive more gowns so it is important that we make our current stocks last similar concerns at the Royal Free Trust.

We will no doubt run out of items over the weekend.

And so I would ask staff to use stock and consumables sparingly.

A spokesperson for the role Free London Trust, so they were confident that they can continue to maintain the necessary stock levels of P p e to support their stuff on the London Northwest University Trust say that since the email they have received a delivery of PEOPIE and now have adequate stocks.

I raised the concerns of frontline workers at today's press conference.

I'm sexually will you apologize to any staff and their families who have told us is the lack of necessary peopIe that's led to preventable mass infections and many deaths?

We are focused as a government across all departments to make sure that everyone in the N.

H s has everything they need in terms of recall resources and equipment.

Well, I'm sorry if people feel that there have been failures, I'll be very, very clear about that.

But at the same time we are in an in an unprecedented global health pandemic.

Right now, it is inevitable that the demand and the pressure's on PP and the demand for PEOPIE are going to be exponential.

The government says they've employed her Killian efforts to get PEOPIE toe where it is most needed, delivering millions of items across the UK and even drafting in the Army to help.

But the British Medical Association has warned that dangerously low levels of P p e r forcing doctors into an impossible situation, having to decide to risk their lives without proper protection.

In recent weeks, pictures have been posted of staff wearing makeshift peopIe nurses in Northwest Park with pictured wearing clinical waste bags as they appealed for proper masks, gowns and gloves.

But yesterday the health secretary, Matt Hancock, angered some by seeming to suggest that N hs workers were overusing PP.

Everyone should use this equipment, used equipment they clinically need in line with the guidelines, no more and no less to Martin got.

I would very politely invite him toe one of my night shifts over the next few nights.

He's more than welcome to join me on the wards as I'm scouring for peopIe.

Sometimes I would ask him to please bring it, bring his own B B because I don't think we would have enough.

To shaft for him is an invitation for the government to fully understand and support frontline staff as they risk their lives to try to save others.

Earlier, I spoke to Dr Resent Alencon, whose shadow minister for mental health and also in any doctor I began by put into her the government's claim that they were unaware of any correlation between the deaths of health care workers on a lack of personal protective equipment.

Well, I think there has to be some sort of correlation between the numbers of deaths that we've seen on the amount of time it took for proper PEOPIE to reach the front lines.

I asked the prime minister myself a number of weeks ago.

I asked him where was our prior planning for our frontline staff to have protective equipment when they needed?

Considering that we had our first case of covert 19 here in January, it simply isn't good enough Staff of feeling under prepared.

Their mental health is suffering a great deal.

We have people you are having to bury their colleagues because they have gone in to fight to save lives.

So when the health secretary said today that he suggested that some N HS staff were over using P P D, does he have a point?

What we do not need in the n a chest and for our workforce is for the government to go on on a press conference every single day outlining the number of pieces of peopie that have been distributed.

We need tohave, the protection on the front line and his comments are ill informed on do nothing to build trust between the government and those who are putting themselves at risk to save lives.

Do you have enough peopie at your hospital in south London?

It took us a number of weeks to get the peopie that we needed.

We then got a good amount, and some of that was because local schools had sent us goggles, which was absolutely fantastic.

But what is deeply alarming is that this looks like an attempt for the government to shift blame unto hardworking Electra staff.

When themselves, they need to be looking at what they must do in order to protect those that are going into bat every single day to save lives.

Well, the health certainly has promised daily deliveries off protective gear on.

There is a sense is never This is just a huge global crisis that actually no one could do any better in the only of this particular storm.

No, frankly, I feel the response has not been good enough.

I am not saying that to score political points because we have to be working together across party to make this work at a time of national crisis.

When you've done a shift and you turn the key in your front door, how do you cope with the scale of the deaths that we're now seeing in this country?

I have to call ahead when I finish my shift on dhe, ask my Children to be kept away from me until I've managed her, have a shower and change my clothes because there is that palpable fear off spreading the virus to those you love the most.

And I also have a father in a care home who I can't go and visit Aunt he doesn't eat unless my brother or ride goes and feeds him.

So I worry every day that he thinks we're just abandoned him completely left him and have forgotten all about him because we can't go and see him and reassure him that were there and we still love him.

It takes a real emotional toll and losing colleagues, losing colleagues who have gone to work to save lives on honestly believing that some of it could have been prevented if they had had proper peopIe from the outset.

That's a very, very difficult cross to bear.

Do you think that we may be over the worst?

Now there's some optimistic noises coming out of those looking at the figures were seeing the death toll go up every single day.

Yesterday we had almost 1000 in hospital deaths reported.

We don't even know the scale of the issue in care homes a moment we won't really know what we're dealing with.

All be able to fight this successfully until we roll out mass testing.

I am deeply, deeply worried about the recommendation that it's okay to go out after seven days off having the symptoms.

I believe we need to be following W h o advice and doing what the rest of the world is doing.

I don't believe we have got on top of this.

I believe that there is still a long, long way to go.

The Downing Street briefing earlier police chief said forces have seen a 21% drop in overall crime in the last four weeks compared to the same period last year.

But today officers were still out in force, making sure people aren't reaching the social distancing rules.

Families have been warned not to try visiting in the tourist spots in east London.

Victoria Park reopened today, complete with police patrols and loudspeakers ordering people to keep their distance or face being moved on or find.

I should have people been staying at home, not from what I've seen in the parts that we've been too.

But they have been trying to keep their distance apart from some sunbathers who were moved on really quickly now today.

Victoria Park reopened after being closed for two weeks, but one big restriction is it's actually now closed, and that's because at four o'clock they closed their doors.

But there are also some other restrictions as well.

Those were park rangers, police on horseback, also moving people along, and people were policing themselves and policing others.

We heard people saying, Well, you shouldn't cycle that you shouldn't do that We also heard some other unpleasant things that we people were saying as well.

But we spoke to residents about how they feel about the park being reopened.

This is my garden because I live in a flat and the people that support it for everyone are the people that were playing football and rugby.

And I can't understand why the police don't evict those people that really responsible people like myself, that are staying socially distant.

There are so many people, um, running up and down and people that are drugging a completely thoughtless but has been criticism as well.

There's been criticism that on the hottest day off the year that this park has reopened the mayor, it's hold off that actually this park is needed for people who are living in tower blocks nearby on, he also said that it's important that they listen to the changes that they've made.

We need people to self police, but we'll have some part wardens and other people doing better supervision.

So people need to maintain their distance that he did not come here for a barbecue or drinking party.

They need to really just come here, do their bit of exercise and then disappear again.

It's day One, and so most people are respecting those rules in this park for now.

But even since we've been here waiting for this life, so happen.

 They've been people jumping over the fences and there were dogs kind of running around in the park on. 