When this scandal over midazolam broke last week everyone pointed their fingers at Hancock. I then asked if Hancock even knew what midazolam was, if he knew of the purchase, and if he had been advised to purchase midazolam in such a quantity.
Turns out that it was the Royal College of General Practitioners who urged the UK government to relax rules on midazolam and complained to the government that there was a national shortage.
This may have prompted the large purchase, and not as part a deliberate planned euthanasia program.
It is still dodgy that suspected Covid patients were moved to care homes, but maybe Hancock is not the bloodthirsty killer David Icke accuses him of being?
From The Financial Times:
Professor Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said the college was pressing the government to relax the rules on the access to medicines used to control pain or symptoms such as breathlessness at the end of people’s lives.
The combination of local supply shortages and legal requirements that every patient has an individual named prescription is leading to delays in administering drugs in cases where Covid symptoms develop rapidly, often in an matter of hours.
“To maximise the availability of such medication, we have raised this issue with government, urging temporary measures to allow more effective use of existing stocks of medicine — for example, being able to repurpose unused medication so that it can be used for other patients who need them, when they need them.”
Bill Hulme, medical director at the St Leonard’s Hospice in York, recounted two incidents last weekend where patients were left waiting as palliative care nurses scrambled to obtain prescriptions for controlled drugs, including morphine and Midazolam, a muscle relaxant.
“The difficulty was getting access quickly to drugs to manage symptoms. We had time to give [one of the patients] morphine and Midazolam that work well in combination, but most of the main pharmacies had run out,” he said.
“We had to phone four or five pharmacies to get the drugs since pharmacies are so stretched to supply drugs. We just about got to the patient’s home in time. The patient died an hour or two later,” Mr Hulme recalled.
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