14 Apr 2020

Coronavirus: Healthcare providers still facing PPE trouble

From Morning Report, 7:43 am on 14 April 2020

Almost three weeks into lockdown and one of the country's major healthcare providers is still struggling to get even a week's worth of personal protection equipment from the 20 District Health Boards.

Its chief executive says staff are feeling disillusioned and some believe they can't come into work as a result.

The news comes as the Ministry of Health is considering changing the way PPE is distributed.

Here's political reporter Charlie Dreaver.

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