This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Give frontline NHS staff proper and effective Personal Protective Equipment.
Frontline NHS staff are at massive risk of contracting Covid 19/Corona virus.
We're currently attending patients with suspected & confirmed C-19 with woefully inadequate PPE. In Italy health care workers are dying due to over exposure to the virus.
Don't hang us out to dry. Give us proper PPE.
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Provide full and effective Personal Protective Equipment, stop playing with the lives and wellbeing of frontline staff by asking them to tend to patients wearing only a polythene apron and paper masks. People are going to die or become seriously ill, like our Italian colleagues.
We don't want praise or hollow words about "Heroes". We want proper PPE.
Requesision manufacturers to start making protective suits, respirators and other much needed equipment.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304243
Advice on the use of personal protective equipment is a matter for Public Health England, not the Government or Parliament.
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coranavirus outbreak.
Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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