LETTERS – Some comments on COVID

I would like to make a couple of comments on the ongoing situation with COVID-19.

I do understand we all have to be on guard with going out etc, but recently my husband had to be rushed to hospital.

I was told that no matter what I was not allowed to turn up at A&E, so this meant I had to keep troubling them by phone to find out what was going on, this causing the hospital problems not only from myself, but others finding themselves in the same situation, taking staff away from the important job of looking after the patients.

Would it not be better for the next of kin to be there so they can see what’s going on? Then this would give the staff the time needed to do their jobs, without having to keep picking phones up.

The other problem with phoning is they will not tell you everything that’s going on, so you’re sitting at home with all the worry.

I would love to know what others think of the situation.

Also we have had to go to Nationwide in Holbeach on several occasions.

We understand the rules with COVID-19, but what we are not able to understand is the fact there is always the longest queue outside but once you get inside there is only one lady on the desk, behind the screen with a mask on. They have another till, which could be used, enough room for us to be separated, but this isn’t happening.

Then there are three or four people behind the till lady, who sit around doing nothing other than talking, but don’t have any face covering at all and are not sitting at a safe distance from each other.

Would it not be better if they opened the other till, to get the queue down saving us all from the long wait outside?

At the moment the weather has been with us, what’s going to happen in the winter, I ask myself.

Mandy Bull
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