Madeleine Warren’s life depends on imported supplies for her daily kidney dialysis‘Beyond insane’: why one woman fears no-deal Brexit could kill her
“If I can’t get my dialysis supplies, it would kill me,” said Warren, a former executive at Goldman Sachs [so maybe indirectly responsible for a few deaths herself?] . “If there was serious disruption to certain supplies and you couldn’t do dialysis, then within a week you could die.”...She spoke out as the government moved to try to reassure the public that medical supplies were secure in the event of crashing out of the EU. The government revealed it has created a logistics hub in Belgium where vital medical supplies will be stockpiled to stop the NHS running out....Warren says she does not feel reassured by the government statements...Warren adds that she has had no reassurance that supplies will be secure either from the renal unit at the hospital or the government.
She says she is so concerned that she is prepared to go on dialysis strike [so sometimes strikes are acceptable, even to a former banker?] outside Downing Street to drive home the dangers facing her and other home dialysis patients.
A marvellous example of how new experiences of risk are leaving the middle classes unable to cope. They are not even reassured by this (appearing right at the end of the article):
“While we never give guarantees, we are confident that, if everyone – including suppliers, freight companies, international partners and the health and care system – does what they need to do, the supply of medicines and medical products should be uninterrupted in the event of exiting the EU without a deal,” said the health minister, Stephen Hammond.
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