Doctors in the UK have shared their fears over 250 ventilators purchased from China and called for their ‘withdrawal and replacement’. Medical experts from the Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust warned that the Shangrila 510 model, made by Chinese firm Beijing Aeonmed Co. Ltd., caused ‘significant patient harm including death’ if used in a … Read more
Britain sends £2.5million of PPE gear and even ventilators 5,000 miles round the world to St Helena – even though tiny island has NO cases of coronavirus Masks, gloves, gowns and five ventilators were sent to island in Atlantic Ocean Comes amid warnings of crippling shortages of PPE within the NHS Two reports of people … Read more
An intensive care nurse has told of the final moments she spent with a dying coronavirus patient and how she held her hands until she passed away while her daughter listened on the phone. Juanita Nittla, 42, has revealed how she watched ‘the heart rate hit zero’ and saw the the patient flatline as music requested … Read more
His face contorted with worry, a young casualty doctor sends a desperate message to the world. He has watched over the beds of hundreds of coronavirus patients, and now believes they are dying because of the very treatment that is meant to save them. New York casualty doctor Cameron Kyle-Sidell has broken ranks with the … Read more
His face contorted with worry, a young casualty doctor sends a desperate message to the world. He has watched over the beds of hundreds of coronavirus patients, and now believes they are dying because of the very treatment that is meant to save them. After being rushed into hospital, they are knocked out by sedatives … Read more
Yet another sign of the impact the Covid-19 crisis has had on us is how much talk there is, even among the public, about the number of ventilators at the NHS‘s disposal. At the time of writing we have 8,000 to 10,000, but the race is on to get more. Even the Trump administration in … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more