By Covid Action UK
Members of several Covid groups, including Covid Action, Doctors in UNITE and Covid Bereaved Families for Justice, will be demonstrating at both 9am and 1pm on Thursday 21st November outside the Covid Inquiry1 where the former Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, is due to give evidence.
Joseph Healy from Covid Action, who has been attending the Inquiry as an observer, said: “All through this module of the Inquiry, dealing with what happened in the NHS during the first and second waves of the virus, we have heard about how NHS staff and patients were hung out to dry by an arrogant and uncaring government. One frontline doctor was in tears on the witness stand as he described how staff dressed in bin bags, ran out of body bags and had to place dead patients in see-through bags that they removed from the wards. We have also heard how early evidence of the airborne nature of the virus was ignored, leading to the infection and death of both NHS frontline staff and patients.
“Matt Hancock, as Health Secretary, was at the top of this terrible pyramid and due to his lack of action and downright incompetence, thousands of families lost loved ones and valued NHS staff died. Some of those who survived remain long-term disabled suffering from Long Covid, or other post viral effects of Covid infection.
“This is social murder and must be called out and not forgotten. While the Tory government partied in Downing Street, thousands of those for whom it was responsible died terrible deaths. Matt Hancock is one of the main authors of this massacre and must be called to account!”
COVID ACTION UK is grassroots, activist campaign of individuals and affiliated labour and trade union organisations who came together in November 2020 to challenge the then UK government’s approach to the pandemic. We are continuing to put forward an alternative strategy, aimed at eliminating community transmission of Covid-19. We are campaigning for this to be adopted by the Westminster government, and the governments of the devolved nations, in order to save lives, prevent the collapse of the NHS and care systems, and stamp down on Covid-19 and all its variants.
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