Former British Health Minister Matt Hancockwho directed the department between July 2018 and June 2021, has recognized this Tuesday that the Government He made a “huge mistake & rdquor; in its strategy to deal with the pandemic. He has done so in his statement before the independent commission that is investigating the Executive’s management of the health crisis, which claimed the lives of 226,000 people in the United Kingdom. Hancock has admitted that adequate measures were not taken to prevent the spread of the virus and has regretted “deeply & rdquor; the deaths caused.
“This mistaken doctrine caused many of the problems that made extremely difficult reply [a la pandemia]. I am deeply sorry for all the deaths and I understand that it is difficult for some to accept this apology,” said Hancock, who has shown himself visibly embarrassed for how the Executive reacted to the health emergency. The ex-minister has recognized that the action plan was more focused on how to deal with a high volume of deaths than stopping the virus itself, wondering where to bury the deceased or how to get enough body bags. He has also pointed out that the Government was unable to trace the infections or to know if the correct protection measures were being applied in nursing homes.
Victim reviews
The former head of Health has been highly criticized by the relatives of the deceased, some of whom have greeted you upon arrival with photographs of their loved ones. At the end of his appearance, Hancock tried to talk to them but many they have not accepted their apology and they have reproached him for not recognizing other alleged errors, such as the fact that many human and financial resources to prepare a possible hard brexit rather than to reinforce the health system for an eventual emergency.
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Despite acknowledging the lack of planning, Hancock has stressed that these mistakes can also be committed in the rest of western countries and has accused the World Health Organization to give the wrong guidelines at the beginning of the pandemic, which pointed out that “there should be no confinements & rdquor; since it was not necessary to close the borders. The ex-minister has pointed out that he had to annul the initial advice that recommended don’t quarantine to people from Wuhan.
controversial resignation
Hancock was forced to resign mid 2021 after the publication of some photos in the newspaper ‘The Sun’, which showed him kissing with her loverone of his assistants, when intimate contact with people outside the family nucleus it was forbidden by sanitary rules. The former minister remained an independent member of Parliament after being expelled from his own party, although at the end of 2022 he announced that I would abandon politics at the end of the legislature.