RE: GKB4718 Nov 2020 21:40
The PPE fiasco goes back at lot further than this pandemic.....it involved BOTH major political parties ...
We had been led to believe that there we contingency plans in place some years ago.... numerous tabletop exercises, the stockpile of PPE that we were supposed to have had on hand ......
Unfortunately governments of of both parties transferred the keeping of this stock control to private contractors for a sum of about £20 million a year.....
Trouble was no one really believed a pandemic would happen on their watch....hence when it was needed they wasn’t even sure where it was located....
When they eventually found this mountain of cardboard boxes there was no telling what items were in them....no expiry date records kept....no stock control records whatsoever......not even a computer system in place.....absolute shambles....,
I know that the blame always stops with those at the top..... however, those lower down the chain ie top civil servants who would be responsible for the day to day management and running of these contracts should hold their heads in shame...
Hopefully all political parties will learn from this dreadful state of affairs and we maybe better prepared for any future pandemics.....
Let’s hope if they ever stockpile SGN001 they’ll do a better job of controlling this valuable commodity...
GLA
GLA