Mate of mine flies from Babcock in Italy with H145....they started to wear surgical masks And gloves since beginning of March..,..and fine operating that way safely.. It not ideal it’s not exactly like the mil AR5 respirator etc but better than nothing.
Slightly digressing With PPE, on BBC Look East Tuesday night, interviews pair of ladies who are carers. Before they go into one of their clients houses, they don one piece green suitmand hood, and full face respirator ...(sounds familiar to those fo us who have done NBC training the old days). when they leave the premises they’re go through decontam drills ( am sure it would frighten the hell out of a lot of Some old folk dressed like that). One of the ladies said it was difficult to communicate through the respirator and am sure it be even worse for those who are hard of hearing.
Some good news though , BP wants to supply free fuel to UK HeMS ops
https://www.heliopsmag.com/air-bp-to...land-and-wales
and also Cornwall new AW169 commenced ops as of yesterday .
https://cornwallairambulancetrust.or...first-mission/
Best of luck all and hope to hell the crisis levels out and begins to go away with all the social isolation, and our HeMs charities get backing from HMG at this time
Cheers