DofH ‘strongly advised’ No.10 not to publicise expected PPE from Turkey

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Department of Health ‘strongly advised’ No.10 not to publicise expected PPE shipment for NHS from Turkey

“We strongly advised Robert Jenrick against doing this but he and No 10 overruled us,” the Department of Health and Social Care source said.

“The advice we gave as a department was that we shouldn’t mention individual orders of PPE. But for whatever reason it wasn’t followed.” It isn't known if 400,000 surgical gowns were on board the plane, but three pallets were seen being unloaded after it landed.Health chiefs have repeatedly warned supplies of PPE are critically low and medics could be forced to work without them in hours.

Several domestic companies, with the capability to make medical-grade PPE, offered to make millions of masks, but by the time they got a response they had sold the equipment to other countries.

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