{"id":41168,"date":"2024-07-18T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/covid-inquiry-first-report-to-show-uks-planning-failures\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T00:01:11","slug":"covid-inquiry-first-report-to-show-uks-planning-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=41168","title":{"rendered":"Covid inquiry: First report to show UK&#8217;s planning failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trained army medic Dr Saleyha Ahsan, who worked in hospitals during the first two waves of Covid and is now part of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group, after losing her father to the virus, said it felt like there had been \u201czero planning\u201d, with doctors often struggling to get hold of the right PPE<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThe rules were changing on a daily basis in the first few weeks &#8211; it was ridiculous,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe were in the flimsiest of PPE, just a little surgical mask with a white apron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt felt like we were making do and the people who were being pushed to the front were healthcare workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt&#8217;s so, so important for those of us who worked through it, who lost through it, or who have suffered ill health because of it, to really appreciate where things went wrong and who was responsible.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c29dzp2z5y6o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trained army medic Dr Saleyha Ahsan, who worked in hospitals during the first two waves of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1358,1363,1359,1362,1360,354,1361],"class_list":["post-41168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-covid","tag-failures","tag-inquiry","tag-planning","tag-report","tag-show","tag-uks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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