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'I've never seen it this bad': Paramedics speak out with more than 1,000 staff off work and Covid call-outs rising

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direct to your inboxThere's a moment, says paramedic Ken Hodkinson, when a family says goodbye to a patient with suspected Covid."You see it suddenly strike home that they may not see their loved one again, especially if they are elderly or frail."It's a sadness when you are taking a patient from their family and they don't know whether it's the last time they will see their mother, father, auntie or uncle again.

Especially if there's children."We are seeing more of that that and we take it home, it's things like that you do take home." The last time the Manchester Evening News spoke to Ken it was December, and he and his colleagues at North West Ambulance were bracing themselves for a 'third wave' of Covid-19.

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