A Bangladeshi origin hospital consultant in the UK who had requested Prime Minister Boris Johnson to make Personal Protection Equipments available for front line workers, passed away due to the Coronavirus. This was confirmed by The Guardian.
Earlier, in a Facebook post, Dr Abdul Chowdhury, a consultant urologist at the Homerton Hospital in London, had written:
“Dear and respectable Prime Minister Mr Boris Johnson, Please ensure urgently PPE for each and every NHS health worker.”
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He went on to add that all National Health Service (NHS) workers and other health staff deserve human rights and denying them the PPE equipment is a denial of their rights.
The Doctor has been hailed as a hero locally. He was aged 53 and leaves behind his wife and two children.
This has once again necessitated the problem of challenges in procuring PPE’s and medical practitioners being left to handle COVID-19 patients without much protection.