Nurses are forced to wear BIN BAGS to guard themselves at major UK hospital that's first in UK to shut medical care because it is overwhelmed by coronavirusNorthwick Park hospital, in London, declared an emergency situation yesterday
Nurses there say they need had to wear clinical waste bags on heads and feet
Six deaths are reported at the hospital thanks to the coronavirus outbreak
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Nurses are pictured wearing clinical waste bags on their heads and feet at an NHS hospital that has been overwhelmed by coronavirus.
Northwick Park hospital, in Harrow, London, declared an emergency situation on Thursday in any case of its critical care beds were crammed with patients.
It took 24 hours for the hospital to face down - after hurriedly transferring patients to nearby hospitals - but desperate nurses have issued an urgent plea for correct masks, gowns and gloves amid fears of an inadequate supply.
The hospital has reported six deaths thanks to COVID-19, and has dozens of patients in medical care .
Nurses pictured wearing clinical waste bags on their heads at the hospital, prompting fears it's going to have an inadequate supply
Shocking photos of exhausted nurses wearing yellow-coloured waste bags on their head at Northwick hospital are shared on social media.
'We are so disheartened with what we face day by day, night by night,' read the caption.
'Improvising PPEs (Personal Protective Equipment) to a minimum of attempt to protect us from our infectious patients, buying our own wellington boots that's said to be re-imbursed. this is often how our prime minister says that we are stockpiling PPEs!
'We need to stay brave for our colleagues who are off sick, families and our patients. It just made us cry inside but we show brave and smiling faces to everyone.'
One nurse, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Daily Telegraph they started using waste bags as that they had 'no choice'.
'We could catch the virus ourselves,' she said, 'We need proper PPE kit now, or nurses and doctors are getting to die. It's as simple as that.
'We're treating our own colleagues on the ward after they caught the virus from patients. How can that be right?
'There are numerous younger people here on ventilation - many with asthma or diabetes. they can not stop coughing, they only cough and cough and cough and that they can not help it.'
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