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Senior medic breaks describes ‘scenes from hell’ during pandemic

A SENIOR medic broke down in tears today as he described scenes “from hell” on intensive care wards during the Covid pandemic.

Former national clinical adviser in emergency preparedness, resilience and response at NHS England Professor Kevin Fong told the Covid Inquiry that staff ran low on body bags and sick patients were “raining from the sky.”

He said was on the scene of the Soho bombing in 1999 and worked in A&E during the July 7 London bombings “but nothing that I saw … was as bad as Covid was every single day” for the hospitals most badly hit during the pandemic.

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