Mobile companies across the country, including EE are doing everything they can for NHS workers and I commend this. But, I am a home Carer with my local council who are in partnership with the NHS. I work in close contact with elderly people in the community who require personal care, meals and medication just as nurses and doctors do in hospitals. The only PPE I have are gloves and aprons, instead of the PPE that hospitals have.
Community carers have been forgotten by the government, and now by mobile phone companies who don’t think a community Carer is as important as the doctors and nurses because they’re not on the front line. Three of the nine people I look after were confirmed with covid while I was their carer. Two of them have since passed away and I’m still working with only gloves and aprons. I’m not asking for discounts or free stuff, I’m looking for recognition for myself and my colleagues who are risking their health with every visit to every elderly persons home. We may not be NHS but we are under the same pressure with even less support. Please don’t forget the men and women who look after your parents in their own home.
We’re working hard to keep your mum, dad, aunties, uncles, grannies and grandads safe and well.
Remember us.
