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Scots doctors refuse to work at Covid treatment hub in row over wearing high-grade PPE

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Acute Respiratory Illness Centre (ARIC) in Hamilton after NHS Lanarkshire told them they could no longer bring their own face masks.They had previously been allowed to wear FFP3 masks - respirator masks which protect by filtering out tiny virus particles from the air - which they bought themselves.

However the health board has told GPs they have to wear surgical masks like nurses who assess patients for Covid-19 symptoms at the centre.Dr Lynn Duff, one of the GPs who stopped working there over the row, told medical magazine Pulse: “Some nursing staff were getting frustrated by the fact that GPs were feeling it necessary to wear FPP3 masks.“Then they reported to their seniors that they felt unsafe in their surgical masks, so the board then.

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