A doctor in Acute Medicine at a London hospital issued an appeal to the public and urged them to stay at home to ‘prevent further avoidable deaths.
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Dr. Katie Sanderson spoke to BBC Radio 4 and said she had been ‘reduced to tears in the work loos’ after seeing photos of ‘huge crowds on Clapham Common and Highbury Fields.’
She said she was now forced to ask patients with coronavirus whether they ‘want to die in hospital or at home.’
“Last week our A&E completely transformed and is now seeing large numbers of patients coming in every day,” she expressed.
“I’m having conversations with patients and families of patients asking if they want to die in hospital, where we’re not allowed to have visitors, or if they want to die at home.
“They’re conversations that last week I cannot have imagined having.”
In an interview with MailOnline, Dr. Sanderson said: “I am 32 and I have colleagues in intensive care who are in their 30s. A friend who is 28 told me they had made their will.
“Really, really, take this seriously. I have heard people say, ‘I want to get coronavirus so that I will be immune.’ It doesn’t work like that.”
She continued: “If you do not take this seriously, you are condemning someone to potentially dying with a nurse they don’t know, because we are not allowing visitors in hospitals. That, or dying at home.
“That is the reality of it.”
She also asked for companies to supply phones for free to patients isolated in hospitals so they could talk to their families.
“What I want every single person in this country to think this morning – is how we can have not a single further preventable death or preventable transmission of this infection and that doesn’t involve waiting for further clarification of the guidance, somebody cannot tell you what to do every second of the day,” she said.
“It is the 24th of March.point 133 | We can make sure that there is not a single further preventable death that could be your mother, it could be you.point 225 |
There are healthcare professionals in intensive care now who are my age – I’m 32.point 75 | Please, please, please don’t spend your time talking today about mistakes that may have been made just think about what you can do to save lives.point 197 | ”point 200 | 1
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