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To implement WHO COVID PPE guidelines to ALL staff with direct patient contact

Submitted on Wednesday 1st April 2020

Rejected on Monday 18th May 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

To implement WHO COVID PPE guidelines to ALL staff with direct patient contact

Petition Details

Every day more and more staff or their family are getting unwell due to the lack of 'ADEQUATE PPEs'.The staff who are asymptomatic at present, are reluctant or anxious to come for the work as there is no adequate PPEs, or not 'allowed' to wear it . Infection is rapidly spreading through staff

Additional Information

All healthcare professionals are more anxious when told not to wear PPEs unless its ' aerosol generating procedure'. By the time, all the staff may be symptomatic and spread the infection to a wider aspect. The biggest support that we can receive at this moment is the PPE. Requesting to implement WHO guidelines for all staff with immediate effect.If not supplied, the impact will be more detrimental as we may lose more staff or their families, or patients who got the infection from staff.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304243

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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

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 coronavirus 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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