Submitted on Thursday 26th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Divert industry to make recommended WHO personal Protective Equipment for NHS
The W.H.O., who are experienced in epidemics, and recommends full PPE, and do not advise the inadequate UK recommendations. This misguided UK advice must change and correct equipment made and delivered very rapidly.
We want the Government to divert businesses to make visors, FFP3 respirator masks, full-arm disposable gowns, shoe covers, long arm gloves, and disposable hair hoods for all NHS staff at risk. This includes GPs seeing ‘suspected’ cases of coronavirus, instead of a surgical mask, short gloves and an apron.
Medical staff are hugely at risk, ie 13% of severe infection cases involve them, with many deaths. Doctors say they feel like ‘cannon fodder’. Doctors groups eg BMA are calling for this.
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There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304243
Advice on the use of personal protective equipment is a matter for Public Health England, not the Government or Parliament.
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: www.gov.uk/coronavirus
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coranavirus outbreak.
Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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