Coronavirus crisis: Elderly may LOSE treatment in bid to save younger patients

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CORONAVIRUS patients could have their treatment withdrawn in favour of saving those more likely to survive with doctors warned they may have to ration life-saving equipment, according to new medical guidance.

Doctors have been warned they will have to start making difficult decisions and decide which patients will be given life-saving resources, such as ventilators. In a document issued by the British Medical Association , health professionals were advised they could be forced to ration care if the NHS becomes overwhelmed with patients during then

 

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Why when we have beds, & not every ventilator is currently in use. As Italy showed, they can be adapted for more than one patient. Production at Fords starts next week.

Disgusting, everyone has the right to live, these people have worked, paid taxes, contributed to society, have loved ones, yet they aren’t deemed as important as a younger person! This is murder!!!

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