Sky News — 'The NHS sold out its staff': Doctors whose lives were devastated by long COVID to sue health service https://news.sky.com/story/the-nhs-...-by-long-covid-to-sue-health-service-13055384 Hundreds of doctors are planning to sue the NHS over claims inadequate PPE on the frontline has left them with long COVID, disabled, and in financial ruin.
I wish them the best of luck going up against the NHS. If the government and insurers were to do right by the people they've made sick or the people they denied adequate care they'd be out of billions. It's a small fine to pay for destroying peoples lives.
My sympathy to the doctors involved. The PPE situation in the UK was disastrous for many. For every doctor affected there are likely to be large multiples of others working in the NHS, particularly nurses who spent all day every day on the wards, equally affected. This could cost billions, and doubtless the government will want to fight it.
Seems kind of weird what with pretty much all control measures having been stopped for a while now. So that judgment should also apply to the current lack of protections, and so is very unlikely to win. It should pass, but might is right. At best it would drag on for years. As long as this issue remains confined locally, every health care system doing its own things separate from the rest of the world, it's unlikely that anything will happen. This is a problem that requires international collaboration in a coherent effort, and wow are we far from seeing any of this.
Also iNews (strangely in the "lifestyle" section) — I’m a doctor with spinal damage from Covid – this is why I’m suing the NHS Nathalie MacDermott, a paediatric infectious diseases doctor, she says: 'If we had another pandemic tomorrow, I think we would make the same mistakes again'
Merged thread I'm a doctor with spinal damage from COVID- this is why I'm suing the NHS Nathalie MacDermott is a paediatric infectious diseases doctor and clinical lecturer at King’s College London. While working on a Covid ward at Great Ormond Street in May 2020, she contracted Covid, leading to a spinal injury that impairs her ability to work until this day. She is part of Long Covid Doctors for Action, an advocacy group that is filing a class action lawsuit with the NHS for not adequately protecting healthcare workers from the risks of infection. https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle...om-covid-this-is-why-im-suing-the-nhs-2873364
