Doctors are set to take to the stand next week at the Covid-19 Inquiry, which is focusing on the experience of healthcare in the pandemic.
The Covid-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance (CATA), of which DAUK is a member, is set to give testimony of how UK healthcare officials have systematically denied overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID-19 is airborne.
CATA, which is a core participant in the inquiry, includes professional associations representing 65,000 healthcare workers as well as individual experts.
It’s chair, Dr Barry Jones, is due to take the stand on Thursday 12 September.
Since 2020, CATA’s membership has been seeking to persuade UK Health Officials to align national guidance to the scientific facts about how the disease is transmitted and how healthcare workers need to be protected from infection.
Kamini Gadhok, former CEO of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and Vice Chair of CATA, said: “The way in which healthcare workers were abandoned to their fates and their professional knowledge was disregarded has left a scar on the UK’s healthcare system.
“The mental health crisis in the NHS and staff shortages all have their roots in the disregard for life and expertise that professionals experienced through the pandemic.”
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