{"id":763,"date":"2021-02-25T21:34:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-pushpo-hossain-on-bbc-radio-4-file-on-4-stories-from-the-ppe-frontline\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T21:34:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:34:57","slug":"dauks-dr-pushpo-hossain-on-bbc-radio-4-file-on-4-stories-from-the-ppe-frontline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-pushpo-hossain-on-bbc-radio-4-file-on-4-stories-from-the-ppe-frontline\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK&#8217;s Dr Pushpo Hossain on BBC Radio 4: File on 4 &#8211; Stories from the PPE frontline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pushpo BBC radio 4 interview 14 02 21\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z95I1AZQj-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>BBC Radio 4 Interview &#8211; 14th February 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cJust getting up for my night shift that I\u2019ve had to pick up because two of our colleagues have come down with COVID and so now there is a rota gap.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI caught COVID in the first wave and I followed all the COVID PPE guidelines, you know, all the PPE that I had couldn\u2019t stop me from getting COVID. I felt really sad and scared for the people who were saying that they did not have PPE because it\u2019s just such a terrible disease. It\u2019s very scary.\u201d<\/p><cite>Dr Pushpo Hossain<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is the story of the UK government\u2019s desperate 12 billion pound scramble to kit out the NHS for COVID. And the tens of millions of items of PPE bought at taxpayers expense that now can\u2019t be used as planned. It\u2019s pretty devastating for those who work on the front line and know so much money is being wasted when it could have been invested in our frontline services.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJust getting up for my night shift that I\u2019ve had to pick up because two of our colleagues have come down with COVID and so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,29,58],"tags":[147,185,44,316,38,370,470,57,32,124,125,42],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-protect-the-frontline","category-the-nhs","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-radio-4","tag-covid-19","tag-covid19","tag-dauk","tag-dr-pushpo-hossain","tag-file-on-4","tag-personal-protective-equipment","tag-ppe","tag-radio","tag-radio-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}