The nurse who treated Boris Johnson when the UK prime minister was admitted to intensive care with covid-19 has quit her job from the National Health Service (NHS) in protest against the government.
Nurse Jenny McGee said that after her “hardest year” at work, she is “taking a step back” from the NHS but hopes to return.
Such statements were made in the program “Channel 4” “The Year Britain Stopped”.
The health worker also said that the nurses were not getting the “respect, and now the pay” they deserve.
The British government has recommended a 1% wage increase for NHS workers this year.
In the same program, McGee said that “many nurses” felt that the government was “not very effective” and that there was “indecision” and “so many confusing messages”, calling the fight against the pandemic “very worrisome.”
“Yes, we put ourselves at stake and worked so hard and there is a lot of talk about how we are all heroes and stuff like that. But at the same time I’m not sure if I’m going to NHS. We don’t get respect and now we pay what we deserve. I’m tired of it. So I resigned, “he explained.
The professional guardian of the British Prime Minister said Boris Johnson was surrounded by sick patients, “some of whom were dying” when he was admitted to the hospital last April.
“I remember seeing it and thinking it looked really, really bad. It really was a different color, “he explained, adding that the time period was” surreal “and that since covid-19 patients are difficult to care for,” we just didn’t know what was going to happen. “
Upon discharge, Boris Johnson praised McGee and Portuguese nurse Luis Pitarma for staying at his bedside all night.
The nurse now plans to work overseas and spend time in her native New Zealand.
“After the most difficult year of my nursing career, I am taking a step back from the NHS but hope to return in the future. I am thrilled to be contracted by a nurse in the Caribbean before returning to my New Zealand vacation home at the end of the year. I am very proud to have worked at St. Thomas Hospital and to be part of such a fantastic team, “McGee said in a statement released by the Guy and St. Thomas NHS Foundation. Trust.
