{"id":400,"date":"2020-04-21T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-5-20-h00tu06tskkljooqusgpxgemdc7ipa\/"},"modified":"2020-04-21T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:00:00","slug":"2020-5-20-h00tu06tskkljooqusgpxgemdc7ipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-5-20-h00tu06tskkljooqusgpxgemdc7ipa\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in The Telegraph: PPE stuck in Turkey as DAUK calls for a public inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The fiasco over a shipment of personal protective equipment<\/a> (PPE) from Turkey has been laid bare as it emerged that the Government had failed to secure the order before making a public announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials ordered 400,000 gowns from a private company but made no checks on whether the goods could be exported despite being aware of a restrictions imposed by President Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They only contacted the Turkish Government to begin negotiations on Sunday \u2013 the day that it had been said that the gowns <\/a>would land in the UK. The shipment finally landed at RAF Brize Norton on Wednesday, but was not complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes amid growing anger over the lack of PPE<\/a> as it emerged that at least 100 health and care workers have lost their lives to Covid-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Katie Sanderson, a doctor in Acute Medicine at a London hospital [and DAUK committee member] has called for all medics who lose their lives fighting the virus to be given an inquest as they died in the course of their employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for the Doctors’ Association UK said it was important the deaths of all healthcare workers were investigated properly either through a coronial process or a public inquiry to ensure that lessons were learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, told the daily Downing Street press conference that the numbers of items of PPE needed are \u201cabsolutely vast\u201d and in the billions each month<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAUK calls for a public inquiry into the government\u2019s failure to provide PPE in addition to coroner\u2019s inquests into each healthcare worker death as it is revealed that PPE supplies are stuck in Turkey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protect-the-frontline","tag-coroners-inquests","tag-katie-sanderson","tag-ppe","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-protect-the-frontline","tag-public-inquiry","tag-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}