A senior killer at the Royal London Hospital has admitted that the sheer number of bodies flowing through the killer makes him feel like a ‘conveyor belt’.
Hannah Leahy, who has broken down hundreds of Covid patients who have died in tears while talking about the devastating impact the pandemic has had on her and her team of five who are to mostly women.
Speaking to the BBC’s Clive Myrie, she said: ‘How do you ever prepare for … people just dying and dying and dying?
‘While it’s our job and we deal with dead people every day, I think this level has gone well.’
Hannah Leahy, who has broken down hundreds of Covid patients who died in tears when she spoke of the devastating impact of the pandemic on her and her team of five who are largely women
It comes after the UK hit a new milestone yesterday with the highest number of Covid deaths (1,610) recorded in a 24-hour period. It marked a sharp 30 percent increase on the 1,243 announced last Tuesday and nearly double the number of victims a fortnight ago, when there were 860.
The intensive care medicine faculty has warned that many hospitals are overcrowded, with some staff on their knees after several months of treating sick patients.
More than 10,000 people in London have now died of coronavirus according to official figures. The Barts NHS Trust, which runs five hospitals including Royal London, has recorded 1,357 patient deaths with Covid-19 certified, as of 18 January.
For the same period 8,009 inpatients with a Covid-19-certified hospital have been discharged and discharged.
Myrie spent 10 days filming at the Royal London Hospital talking to staff, patients and family members for a special report.
Asked if the mortar feels like a ‘conveyor belt’, Hannah – who holds an official position as an anatomical pathology technologist – said ‘Yes, in a way, I hate to say that because I hate it think like that, but yes it is, almost. ‘
Hannah acknowledged that the sheer number of bodies flowing through the morgue (pictured) feels like a ‘conveyor belt’.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast this morning, reporter Clive Myrie said the raw feeling seen as a result of Hannah having to keep everything in check for the pandemic
Breaking down in tears, she said: ‘Sorry. I’ve done this for years … when someone says how it makes you feel, and you say how it makes you feel, this is how it makes you feel. it makes you feel. ‘
Speaking on BBC Breakfast this morning, Myrie said the raw feeling seen as a result of Hannah ‘keeps everything in check for the pandemic’.
‘When we filmed her she told me she won’t talk to her family or friends about it because no one outside her circle wants to talk about death,’ he told guests Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.
‘So those feelings and emotions are bottled inside that team of five women at the Royal London Hospital, and for a stranger to come to her and say,’ How do you feel about what you had to do? something she wasn’t just ready for.
Her colleague Hannah is also seen in tears as she admits that nothing could have been prepared for the toll that the pandemic inflicted on them.
‘What you saw was months and months of pain, hunger, harassment, just pouring out because no one outside her circle ever asks her how she feels and that is … we want to get into those movies. The side of pandemic that so many people may have in the back of their minds but don’t think about or want to think about. ‘
The report also showed devastating views from Covid’s wards, which are located in 12 of the hospital’s 15 floors – 400 patients in total.
Emergency care consultant Marie Healy is seen looking at a 28-year-old man without basic conditions who has been on an air conditioner for more than three weeks and also other family members are in emergency care.
She undertakes the arduous task of phoning his wife to deliver the horrific news he may not pull through.
Emergency care consultant Marie Healy is seen looking at a 28-year-old man without basic conditions who has been on an air conditioner for more than three weeks and also other family members are in emergency care. She takes on the difficult task of phoning his wife to deliver the horrific news that he may not be able to pull through.
Charles after the call, she admitted: ‘It’ s very sad because this poor family has been through a lot and of course a nice person, that makes it harder. ‘
Marie said: ‘I think the public wants to do the right thing but I don’t feel they understand the scale of the problem.’
Kathy Macgloin, a consultant anesthetist who is currently ‘going in’ on the intensive care wards, described how she cares for Covid’s patient in her mid-twenties, and the its oxygen levels are dangerous.
She explained: ‘I take a shower, and it’s not just the PPE so I mean she’s young, she’s related to someone, this is something we value. keep and we are trying to do. Yeah, it’s scary. ‘
Kathy Macgloin, a consultant anesthetist who is currently ‘going in’ on the intensive care wards, described how she cares for Covid’s patient in her mid-twenties, and the its oxygen levels are dangerous