Submitted on Wednesday 11th March 2020
Rejected on Thursday 12th March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Urgently puchase more ECMO machines to treat critical coronavirus patients
The UK only has 15 beds available for adult extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment at five centres across England. How can the government not be actively buying addition more ECMO machines? China purchased thousands! Italy is buying more. Mortality rate can be improved with ECMO.
As the infection rate of coronavirus increases in the UK potentially thousands of patients will benefit from adult extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment, normal treatment duration is 5 days but can sometimes be extended to 20-25. Boris Johnson has stated the NHS can have whatever it needs to fight coronavirus so buy more of these machines. Do not put our country in a position where we have to choose who benefits from these machines. All people deserve equal healthcare treatment.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Treatments are a clinical decision for the NHS, not the UK Government or Parliament.
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