A healthcare worker in north-west
London quit her job after she was refused permission to wear a protective face mask, the Guardian has learned.
In her resignation letter (below), Tracy Brennan chastised her superiors at Hillingdon Hospitals
NHS foundation trust for forbidding her from wearing a surgical mask she had bought to protect herself – and the patients she was caring for – from contracting the deadly virus.
Brennan, a healthcare assistant, which is also sometimes referred to as an auxiliary nurse, said she had returned to work after self-isolating for 14 days because her daughter had shown symptoms of Covid-19. She said that patients in the ward where she was working, which was not a coronavirus treatment ward, felt comfortable with her wearing the surgical mask and some positively encouraged her to do so.