A former Welsh health minister has said that NHS staff may have treated Covid patients during the pandemic with inadequate PPE.
Former first minister Vaughan Gething, who was in charge of the health service from 2016 to 2021, returned to the Covid inquiry to give evidence on Wednesday. The inquiry heard that early PPE stocks ran out weeks faster than anticipated, and some eye wear had to be binned. “Shysters,” Gething said, also saw an “unscrupulous business opportunity” in making money from inadequate kit.
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