Conference urged to fight for truth and justice in COVID inquiry

UNISON’s national delegate conference in Liverpool opened its afternoon session yesterday with Professor Lynn Sudbury-Riley speaking of her work with the COVID Bereaved Families for Justice. She opened by saying: “Today is a special day, because while there have been lots of rounds of preliminary hearings and meetings, today, the public hearings for the COVID-19 inquiry finally begin.” She explained the importance of the inquiry to her, personally, “due to the way my lovely dad died back in March 2020 – he’d gone into the Royal Liverpool Hospital not far from here because of a foot operation a few weeks earlier. “During those weeks, as a family we’re watching the news and seeing what’s happening in other parts of the world – especially Italy – we’re listening to what their doctors and their healthcare workers are saying, but not everyone would listen would they?” The professor told delegates that, while her father was in hospital, and before lockdown, the Champions league match between Liverpool and Athletico Madrid went ahead, adding: “Ironically, those Madrid fans wouldn’t have been allowed to attend such a sporting event in their own country, but they were allowed to come here.” Noting that, on 19 March 2020, the prime minister was still announcing that we could ‘turn the tide’ on COVID in just 12 weeks, she said: “Clearly our government wasn’t looking after its citizens, so we as a family decided to stop visiting our dad, n...
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