The Health Secretary has shared his night witnessing the "huge pressure" intensive care staff are under at Basildon Hosptial.
Matt Hancock visited the hospital last night where he met with frontline workers and listened to their experiences battling Covid-19.
Mr Hancock was shown around the hospitals vaccination centre, respiratory ward, critical care and emergency department.
In a social media video shared by the Department for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock sent a message of thanks to all working in the NHS across the country, from inside the walls of Basildon hospital.
In the video, Mr Hancock said: “It’s the middle of the night and I’m in the intensive care unit at Basildon Hospital.
“I’ve been here with the nurses and doctors on the wards listening people about what they need.
“The staff of the NHS, I’m so grateful to them from the bottom of my heart. I’ve seen the pressure that they’re working under tonight.
“There’s still 37,000 people in hospital across the UK with coronavirus and each and everyone one of them is being cared for by nurses, by doctors, by physios and others and the pressure is enormous.
“So I want to say a massive thank you from the bottom of my heart to everybody working in the NHS.”
"I want to say a massive thank you from the bottom of my heart to everybody working in the NHS."
— Department of Health and Social Care (@DHSCgovuk) January 28, 2021
@MattHancock visited Basildon Hospital where he met staff and spoke to them about treating patients for coronavirus & how the #COVID19 vaccine programme was going.@MSEHospitals pic.twitter.com/bMcre8b10x
Mid and South Essex NHS Trust thanked the Secretary of State for his visit to the hospital and for listening to the staffs firsthand experience in intensive care, the emergency department and on the respiratory wards.
Clare Panniker, Chief Executive of Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: “I would like to thank the Secretary of State for taking the time to visit our Trust. We were really pleased for the opportunity to show him how dedicated and compassionate our staff are and how, through working with our partners, we’ve been able to provide the best possible care for patients during an incredibly difficult time.”
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