i'm a doctor for the nhs i've been
working with the nhs since 2018
and i was a pregnant doctor working
during the pandemic at the time
and i'm here today because i think it's
very important we bring the truth out
there have been a lot of errors during
the pandemic and it's cost
human lives a lot of people have died
senselessly
when the pandemic happened earlier this
year i saw it go through all the
different countries and
a part of me believed that our country
will be prepared
with a leading country in a lot of areas
especially in the field of science and
medicine
so i thought nothing could go wrong in
great britain and i had faith in the
government
i had faith that they would protect
doctors
and healthcare workers so that we could
protect our patients
they're not showing us how many
healthcare workers have been ill in itu
they're not showing us how many domestic
cleaners have died
they're not showing any of that i am not
allowed to speak to anybody in the media
and that made me very upset
when the first healthcare worker died
they died in
a covered ward they they were infected
and the only way they could have been
infected was if they didn't have the
right protection
in my husband's own hospital a pregnant
nurse died this is one health care
worker
to date we have 620 health care workers
who've died
driving to work every day i had a fear i
didn't know what i was exposing
myself to or my unborn child to and if
something had happened i would have
never been able to forgive myself
i asked for risk assessments i asked to
be changed
to a different department but my
concerns weren't being heard because
there wasn't enough evidence to show
that pregnant
women won't be at any risk or neither
would the unborn child
and this is why i realized that not only
am i being silenced
my own managers were following my social
media
they were tracking everything i was
saying everything i was doing
i received phone calls with threats and
i was also told
that if i didn't show up to my long
shifts i wouldn't be paid as
as i usually am
they don't know i'm coming today because
they
have told me that i have to go through
them
if i want to speak to any media these
are the people who are trying to create
a sort of propaganda they're putting out
these briefings in the hospital and
posters saying
we've had this many patients who are
covert positive and we've discharged
them
but they're not showing the reality and
that's what they're fearful of
they're all just yes men to the
government and they
are trying to hide the reality if as
doctors were
being silenced in our own hospitals
where does that leave us as a country
what kind of democracy are we living in
i mean these are the kind of things that
we would see
in in strict regimes like north korea
this is happening within our own country
as a doctor i was working during the
pandemic
until april so january february march
april these four months not once did i
get a mask fitting
i had nothing on that ward it left me in
a situation where i had to look at
my own protection or the patient and
every single day
the guidelines were changing one day we
were told the full gown was okay
the next day we were told that a plastic
atron is okay a penny was good enough to
protect ourselves from a deadly virus
we knew that all of these changes in the
guidelines were based on
politics because they just didn't have
the right amount of ppe
but nobody would ever use these words we
don't have enough
if i went into a patient who was covert
positive and he coughed
in between the consultation then what
last year in july when they did a full
investigation into how much protective
gear they have
they realized that there wasn't enough
if a pandemic had hit us
nothing was done within our own country
within the uk
there were so many manufacturers who had
the ppe
that we required they were sitting in
their warehouses
but our government decided to order ppe
from burma from turkey
and when they came they were also faulty
when we looked into the ppe the
government had
they were out of date they were expired
as a doctor walking in to your work
opening a surgical mask box
and seeing that the expiry date had a
sticker replaced on top of it
how do you think that makes us feel i
think the biggest issue now
is how can we help healthcare workers
because this pandemic has taken a huge
psychological toll
on everybody we've lost faith in our
government
a lot of us have even lost the love that
we had and the passion that we've had
for our jobs
and i don't know if we could we can
recover from this
the government have lied to us and
they have to be held accountable and
we have to seek justice for those
families who've lost their loved ones
these ministers have blood on their
hands they have killed people
and they're still sitting in the same
office and this has to change
you