Prospect of Biological and Nuclear Terrorism in Central Asia and Russia. Musa Khan Jalalzai
is repeated. In the absence of a vaccine, and no expectations of its early availability, and without the proven antivirals such as Tamiflu which are so useful in mitigating the effects of influenza, controllers have to fall back on time-honoured epidemiological tools, isolating cases, tracking down their contacts, testing them and isolating them as well if they prove positive for the disease. The error here is in asserting that the “test, track and trace” programme is a central part of a pandemic plan. It certainly should have been but, as we have seen by reference to the influenza plan on which the government relied, contact tracing was confined to the initial stages, with a view to demonstrating that community spread had become established”.
The issue of Boris Johnson’s missing five COBRA meeting caused consternation within the country that due to his criminal negligence the virus might kill thousands. On 20 April 2020, Karim El-Bar warned in his article that many things were not going on right directions:
An investigative report by British newspaper The Sunday Times rocked the U.K. government Sunday, claiming a series of grave errors were made early in the coronavirus outbreak in late January and February. The piece, titled “Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster,” said Prime Minister Boris Johnson missed a series of crucial meetings, that stockpiles of personal protective equipment (PPE) were not replenished and that testing capacity was not ramped up quickly enough. British health authorities announced Sunday that the U.K.-wide death toll from the coronavirus had reached 16,060. Britain lost “a crucial five weeks in the fight to tackle the dangerous threat of the coronavirus despite being in a perilously poor state of preparation for a pandemic,” the report said. Johnson missed five meetings of Cobra, the government’s emergency council that convenes in times of crisis, according to the report. The report added that the U.K. sent 279,000 pieces of PPE to China despite not replenishing its own stocks in preparation for increased cases; the last pandemic rehearsal was in 2016 and found the U.K. lacked both PPE and ventilators, but the recommendations were not acted on; no-deal Brexit preparations “sucked all the blood out of pandemic planning”; and that despite the British Healthcare Trades Association offering help making PPE as early as February, their offer was only accepted on April 1.....The report said Johnson was also distracted by private matters, namely finalizing his divorce and announcing his engagement to his pregnant girlfriend Carrie Symonds”.
There have been contradictory statements of the Johnson’s cabinet Ministers about the virus developments, lockdown and hospital death since February 2020, but civil society and medical forums rejected their claims and macrologies. Journalist and expert, Katy Balls in her Guardian article (23 April 2020) has exposed the failed strategies of government to tackle COVID-19:
“The beleaguered health secretary has been in the news this week as a potential “fall guy” for the government over its handling of coronavirus. Among the hostile briefings, a No 10 source complained to the Telegraph that Hancock’s promise in a press conference earlier this month of 100,000 tests by the end of the month would “come back to bite him” and suggested the figure was “arbitrary”. Meanwhile, senior Tories are speculating that he will be moved from his brief before any public inquiry. While Hancock is the minister most clearly in the firing line, there has been a change over the past week. As the prime minister’s health has improved, MPs and ministers have become more loose-lipped when it comes to concerns over the government strategy and lockdown – with senior Tories kicking off about the economic impact of lockdown and a growing cabinet debate over the exit strategy. In recent weeks, there has been annoyance within the government at the 100,000 test target. When Hancock made that promise at a press conference in early April, it followed a few days of bad headlines for the government which included mixed messaging and an uninspiring performance from the business secretary, Alok Sharma, the day before. Inside the government there is frustration that the ministers not involved in the day-to-day decisions have taken to knocking those who are in the engine room. “There are two types of people during a pandemic: those who spend all their time dealing with a pandemic and those who aren’t involved and spend their time complaining,” says a government source”.
Now, I want to describe and quote painful stories of innocent elderly patients who were killed by doctors, nurses, Liverpool Pathway Care, and injections. The stories of elderly patients who were tortured and humiliated in hospitals, clinics and care homes, mothers and their new-born babies who have undergone ruthless moments. On 13 July 2012, Bazian reported NHS acknowledgment of the incompetency and inability of the organization to tackle number of scandals that exposed it true face:
“Poor hospital care is “needlessly killing 1,000 NHS patients a month”, The Daily Telegraph headline reads. It says that the largest ever study of errors in British hospitals has found that one patient in 10 is affected by potentially serious medical errors, with half of them dying as a result. A recent example of a preventable death, highlighted by the Telegraph, was the tragic death of Kane Gorny. His inquest found that he died from dehydration due to a combination of misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment. Most of these “possibly preventable” deaths occurred among elderly, frail patients with multiple other medical problems. This raises debate over whether these deaths were actually “preventable”. Based on these figures the reviewers estimated that almost 12,000 (11,859) adult deaths would have been preventable in England during 2009. These are important findings, but are estimates only – the reviewers only examined the records of 1,000 patients from a sample of hospitals. While a single preventable death is one too many, the researchers actually found that the number of preventable deaths was far lower than previously thought. Some previous estimates put the number of preventable deaths occurring every year in England as high as 40,000. The researchers were keen to stress, “this does not mean that preventable deaths should be ignored and no attempt made to improve our understanding of their causes”.
However, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust also admitted inability of its trust to treat patients properly: “There has been both interest and concern relating to the recent immediate imprisonment of a doctor for manslaughter. Commentators have questioned whether the threshold for conviction of surgeons for manslaughter is being lowered in England and Wales. Are there safeguards in the criminal justice system that makes the anxiety that doctors are now more prone to conviction or imprisonment for manslaughter ill-founded? Manslaughter is an offence of unlawful killing, or homicide. It is distinguished from murder by finding the absence of ‘malice aforethought’, roughly translated as an intention to kill”.
The issue of lethal injection is has also been matter of great concern that kills numerous people being in hospitals. Under figures gained from a 2012 freedom of information request by The Daily Telegraph, 85 per cent of NHS trusts were revealed to have adopted the Liverpool Care Pathway. Just over half of the total of NHS trusts have received or are due to receive financial rewards for doing so. At many hospitals more than 50 per cent of all patients who died had been placed on the pathway and in one case the proportion of foreseeable deaths on the pathway was almost nine out of 10.
In yesteryears, Daily Mail published interesting stories about the malpractices and scandals of NHS establishment. In that stories, the newspaper reported cases of rape on hospital bed, humiliation, torture and killing of elderly patients whose cases were never thoroughly investigated by their sons and daughters Ministers, secretaries and working class. Credit goes to the great management of the Daily Mail that reported the killing of 130,000 elderly patients every year. According to the Complementary Medical Association details, the Daily Mail reported on the way that the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), an end-of-life care programme was being used in the NHS. The programme was designed to help improve what was termed as – the “quality of dying” – for terminally ill patients.
The CMA also reported that, ‘once a doctor – or a nurse–determines that a patient has days or hours left to live, they are allowed to give them a steady dose of morphine – or other painkillers – until they die. The report quotes a ‘prominent professor’ as describing this programme as a “back-door form of euthanasia” and claiming that it now “kills” around 130,000 patients every year. The accusation is that many healthcare practitioners aren’t properly assessing patients’ status and simply implementing the programme when they want – and it is felt – that this is being used to remove troublesome patients. The key critic of this policy, Professor Patrick Pullicino, said