Health
NHS 111 call centre was unsafe, says worker who nearly died from Covid – The Guardian
Stephen Poore, who spent 42 days on ventilator, says there was no social distancing at Ashford office
Stephen Poore was a healthy, hearty, hardworking family man before he got a job at an NHS 111 call centre in early March, as the pandemic was extending its grip across the country. He became a Covid-19 service adviser, handling 111 calls from anxious members of the public.
That is where he believes he contracted the virus, crammed together with other recruits in the call centre. Poore is now blind in one eye, has blurred vision in the other and has to use a walking frame, having come close to d…
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