FRONTLINE NHS workers have been praised after a local hospital revealed it had no Covid patients in its ICU for the first time since October.
Barrow MP Simon Fell gave his ‘heartfelt thanks’ to front line workers after the Royal Lancaster Infirmary reported on Saturday that its ICU was Covid free. And Dr Shahedal Bari, medical director at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust said the news was down to the efforts of the public and NHS staff. In a tweet a hospital spokesman from critical care said on Saturday: “Today ICU is COVID free for the first time since last October.
Morecambe Bay hospital trust reveals complaints over under-fire department
The investigation comes after concerns were raised by whistleblowers about operations carried out by a particular surgeon between 2011 and 2018
A general view of Royal Lancaster Infirmary
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Bosses at Morecambe Bay’s hospital trust have revealed the number of complaints made about an under-fire department.
BARROW: Furness General Hospital. CONCERNS over a surgeon have led to him having restrictions imposed on how he is able to work. A tribunal has imposed interim conditions on the practise of Dr Nallapuneni Venkata Suresh Kumar prohibiting him from working without supervision. The orthopaedics doctor had the restrictions imposed following an initial investigation by the health watchdog the General Medical Council. An external review is looking into concerns over patient safety in orthopaedics services at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust. Under the interim conditions the doctor is not allowed to work as a consultant and must be directly supervised in all of his surgical procedures by a clinical supervisor.
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Special report: On Lancaster s Covid red wards where heroic and scarred staff are exhausted
For 12 months the doctors, nurses and support staff in Morecambe Bay have been fighting the pandemic from the frontline - now, for the first time they have spoken out collectively about their efforts to save lives and the toll it has taken
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Play now Staff are physically scarred where the masks have melted to their faces. Plastic surgeons say those scars will be permanent.
Off camera, Dr Shahedal Bari struggled to hold back tears as he revealed the physical and mental impact of the Covid pandemic on the doctors, nurses and support staff in his trust.