DOCTORS and nurses blocked the road outside the Treasury in Westminster yesterday morning to call on the government to end its financial support for fossil fuels. 

The action by Doctors for XR, an offshoot group of Extinction Rebellion, was taken to coincide with World Health Day to highlight the “significant harm” of fossil fuel use to public health. 

Six activists locked onto oil barrels outside the main HM Treasury building on Horse Guards Road, while others held banners saying: “For health’s sake: stop financing fossil fuels,” and “Clean energy, less war.”