DAVID USES HIS LOAF TO HELP THE NHS HEROES
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MELBOURNE ESTATE AGENTS Residential Sales and Lettings Tel: 01332 865696 Melbourne: 01332 865696
No. 329 April 2020
by LUCY STEPHENS
A KEEN bread maker from Barrow-upon-Trent has been baking a loaf a day for dedicated NHS workers after hearing how two members of staff had been vying for the last bread in the hospital shop.
l Health care assistant Roxy, who is appealing for hand cream.
David Lovie began his daily bake for hospital workers at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust after hearing from his wife Lorna how two members of staff had been in dispute over the last loaf of bread for sale. In response, David has been baking a fresh loaf of bread every day for his wife to present to a member of staff who is “doing something extraordinary”. He has been daily posting the recipients of that day’s daily bread on Facebook. “Everybody has got an amazing back story,” he said. David, who has made bread for many years, said he had got ingredients coming to him from all over the country as items such as flour and yeast have been in short sup-
ply over recent weeks. So far, recipients of David’s daily bread have included Hannah, who has taken on the task of collating and distributing all the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) throughout the hospital. Couple Gill and Neil (pictured above) have also received one of the loaves, with Neil tasked with creating new wards and trans-
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forming existing ones into specialist COVID-19 wards. Gill is responsible for refresher training and redeployment of nurses. Roxy, a health care assistant on an elderly care ward, is part of a team working 12 and a half hour shifts looking after patients with COVID-19. Many appeals are currently circulating on social media that would provide assistance to health care workers at the current time. One of them is an appeal for hand cream, with staff members such as Roxy ending up with chapped hands because they are changing their PPE up to 15 times an hour. So far, an appeal for hand cream has generated 400 tubes to be sent from another Barrow resident to the hospital trust. Another is for keen sewers to make headbands, using material that can be washed at a high temperature, in order to make face masks more comfortable to wear. The Village Voice will share the pattern on our Facebook page.
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