A high-profile shipment to the UK of 400,000 surgical gowns has ended in catastrophe -- with every one of the garments deemed unusable after arriving from Turkey.
The gowns, made by a Turkish company and flown into the UK by the Royal Air Force on April 22, had been touted as an answer to the calls of underprotected health care workers.But they were never distributed to frontline workers, it has emerged.
"We've had three flights with gowns from Turkey -- because we know that every single one of those items of PPE is needed by those working so hard on the front line," First Secretary of State Dominic Raab added at the government's daily coronavirus briefing on April 29.Boris Johnson's government has faced repeated scrutiny over the lack of PPE in hospitals and care homes, as well as the availability of testing, and the new setback raises further concerns about his response.
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