Salisbury still affected by 'trauma' of novichok poisonings five years on, says health chief

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Salisbury still affected by 'trauma' of novichok poisonings five years on, says health chief
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The public health chief who helped oversee the emergency response to the Salisbury novichok poisonings has told Sky News people in the city are still feeling the impacts five years on

, Ms Daszkiewicz said:"We can't lose sight of the fact that for most people, whilst they're dealing with an emergency or living in an emergency, people just get on with it.

The pair had been for lunch in an Italian restaurant, unaware that they had come into contact with novichok, which had been smeared on the handle of the door to their home. "And I don't think there's any amount of training or anything that would let you think that that would ever be probable."There's always been a motto amongst the emergency response within Wiltshire about responding to the unusual in the usual way, and that actually came into being with this."

"And, you know, she was just such a vibrant woman with this incredible dry wit. And I think seeing her image just completely floored me.

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