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To: Chief Nursing and Chief Medical Officer
Honour NHS Staff's Sacrifice
Honour the sacrifice of all NHS and care workers who have given their lives in the fight to save others in the Coronavirus Pandemic by reading out their names in a roll call of honour at the daily press briefings and tell us the truth about how many are dying.
Why is this important?
The NHS and care staff are putting themselves at the greatest risk and losing their lives to protect and save others who have fallen victim to the virus. They are now dying and this is having an increasingly demoralising effect on the staff when they are all scared and worried about their safety.
We must honour and respect everyone who has fallen victim to this unprecedented global pandemic and we must put the humanity back into the statistics we are being given. We ask you as our Health leaders to avoid hiding information from us for the fear of scaring us. I'm a nurse and together with my colleagues we think about our risk every day. Losing a colleague will be absolutely devastating to us on the front line as it is to all our colleagues who have already lost their friends. Reading out their names is a very small step that has huge humanistic benefits for us in the health care sector and the whole population at this grave and dangerous time for us all.
I also call on the government to call for a weekly minute silence for all the victims each Thursday evening alongside the positive expression of gratitude that is currently occurring.
We must honour and respect everyone who has fallen victim to this unprecedented global pandemic and we must put the humanity back into the statistics we are being given. We ask you as our Health leaders to avoid hiding information from us for the fear of scaring us. I'm a nurse and together with my colleagues we think about our risk every day. Losing a colleague will be absolutely devastating to us on the front line as it is to all our colleagues who have already lost their friends. Reading out their names is a very small step that has huge humanistic benefits for us in the health care sector and the whole population at this grave and dangerous time for us all.
I also call on the government to call for a weekly minute silence for all the victims each Thursday evening alongside the positive expression of gratitude that is currently occurring.
