'Health workers treating Covid-19 patients faced ‘life-threatening’ shortages of PPE' 😖
Items taken included masks, paper suits and hand gel, with some of the items rendered no longer usable due to contamination.Police said he was arrested on suspicion of theft, actual bodily harm and a racially-aggravated public order offence.
Doctors and nurses are facing a ‘life-threatening’ shortage of PPE while they treat coronavirus patients He was taken to a south London police station where he was charged with theft from a motor vehicle, a section 4 Public Order Act offence and a racially aggravated Public Order Act offence.Police said he was also charged with assault against an emergency worker in relation to the security guard, who sustained facial injuries which were not life-threatening.
Earlier this week, the British Medical Association said health workers treating Covid-19 patients faced ‘life-threatening’ shortages of PPE. Despite assurances that more face masks and gloves will be delivered to NHS Trusts, doctors and nurses still ‘face the daunting prospect of having to consider treating patients without adequate protection’ the BMA said.
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