Matt Hancock pandemic diaries: Ex-Health Secretary recounts 2021 Basildon ... trends now
Matt Hancock pandemic diaries: Ex-Health Secretary recounts 2021 Basildon ... trends now
‘I don’t think we’ll see him again': Matt Hancock reveals doctor's harrowing words as he put Covid patient on a ventilator during night shift at the height of the pandemic
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Matt Hancock revealed the harrowing moment a Covid patient was put on a ventilator as a doctor said: ‘I don’t think we’ll see him again.’
The former health secretary had travelled to Basildon Hospital in January 2021, then one of the most under-pressure hospitals, to accompany doctors on the night shift.
The ‘unbelievably awful moment’ was one of countless horrors experienced by NHS frontline staff in the pandemic, which has claimed 212,000 lives in the UK.
At the time there were still 37,000 people in hospitals being treated for Covid, and staff faced the bleak regularity of caring for patients in the final days of their life.
