BUT young guardian awarded in Queen’s birthday list for patient care dying alone during a pandemic says he was left “angry” from people breaking COVID rules.
Alex Griffiths says measures to stop the spread of in virus were to be respected “regardless of your political, economic or social standing” and they were for “improvement of each”.
22-year-old, from Dudley in West Midlands, holding my hand of one elderly patient and talked to him when he passed away because COVID-19 rules prevented family from being at his bedside.
Mr Griffiths, who receives the British Empire Medal for NHS services, he said found It “hard“Leaving his shift at Russells Hall Hospital during the coronavirus crisis because he knew some patients wouldn’t make it through the night.
He told Sky News: “You have come to the end of your shift and you’d be tired of 12-and-half hours on your feet, running around in PPE, but then you almost don’t want Leave.
“You should have heard of a patient who was here one evening and then no in morning – there is someone else in this bed.
“During COVID it was regular entry.
“Would you come in and you will have two or three new patients, and you didn’t have to ask why, because, unfortunately, you knew why.”
Mr Griffiths, one of the youngest recipients on this yearhonor listtook care for his mother sharon, who has multiple sclerosis since age of five.
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He began training as a clinical support Russells Hall hospital worker in Dudley in September 2019 where did he go on to help in COVID chambers.
work involved end-of- life care supporting seriously ill patients in what could be them last moments.
He said that relatives of the patients “were happy know existed people in hospital who genuinely cared.”
“It’s all you want in the end of day – for your family member to take care of,” Mr. Griffiths added.
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On the people breaking COVID rules during the pandemic, he said he had “a little of angry tirade” on social media after one “Especially long bad shift”.
He said “I can see why people did it because people were sick and tired – everyone was sick and tired of what happened – but there was a goal for it was useful.”
He added: “Regardless of your political, economic, social stand – we all people in the end of day, we are all in same boat, there are holes in this boat in it, and every time someone goes out and breaks the rules just addition more holes.
“In spite of of where do you fit on in social stairs, i.e. rules here for a reason and this for improvement of all not just several.”
