Lest we forget... And I know a lot of you want to forget. It's
understandable. The Covid 19 pandemic hit a hard stop in November 2021. It was
a remarkable occurrence that has never happened before in politics. What had
been the "current thing" for the previous eighteen months just
vanished overnight down the Memory Hole. The bigger issues associated with that
can be found in the background link below and lie outside the remit of the
HPWA. It is possible we hospital porters might have to go through the same
thing again. The World Health Organization keeps talking about "the next
pandemic". What next pandemic? How do they know? Whatever the answer the
HP's will be on the front line of dealing with it, like all healthcare
providers. Joe Albro is a porter at Harrogate
District Hospital .
He says he walks 23,000 to 30,000 steps a day; yes indeed! At least we keep fit
with our job. He is engaged to be married to a girl in HR, presumably not a
girl like the ones I knew, see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2023/05/ive-got-posting-in-thailand.html.
He joined the porters in 2019, not knowing that six months later he'd be at the
pandemic coalface. "The job was
already busy, but when Covid happened it got crazy. The second wave has been
manic. You can work non-stop some days, walking everywhere and pushing stuff
around. It is exhausting. It doesn't worry me working here, especially as we've
got all the correct PPE." Contrary to popular belief, a lot of the
personal protective equipment we used in the lockdown was that which we used
anyway in some situations because we're all trained for quarantine conditions,
what we call "barrier". Joe is very inspired because he had to care
for his mother who has multiple sclerosis. Of all the traumatic elements of the
job, the part he finds the most difficult to deal with is patients with
dementia. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-55984765.
I salute my EP&DBP Joe Albro! I wonder what he's doing now. Is he still in HPing?
Did he get married to his admin sweetheart? If he's still one of us, what will
he be having to deal with in the years to come. Whatever the answer, I wish him
all the best.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/02/coronavirus-portal.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/02/coronavirus-portal.html.
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