It is encouraging to know that our popular International Development Secretary Priti Patel is determined to clamp down on the misuse of our precious Foreign Aid by UN health officials who spend vast fortune staying in luxurious hotels and first class travel, the money they should be spending on treating patients suffering with malaria, typhoid and other such diseases common in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
Being a nurse and a front line health worker in our NHS during my working days and now a regular user of NHS, I can see at first hand how our elderly and chronically sick patients suffer in A & E, waiting in trolleys due to lack of beds. The long unbearable wait in A & E forces many to go private, their children paying the bills from their merger savings who could not let their parents suffer in silence.
With the election just a few weeks away, it is right time to remind our pampered politicians the neglect they have imposed on our NHS with their holier than thou attitude, in denying the funding our NHS badly need due to ever rising demand associated with long lifespan, ever rising OAPS population and extreme shortages of GPs. No wonder our newly qualified GPs prefer to work as locus, thus selecting hours, time and places they would like to live and work.
Kumudini Valambia
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