What life on the coronavirus frontline really looks like
WE’VE been banging our pots and pans at 8pm every Thursday, cheering and clapping the NHS heroes who are saving lives during this pandemic.
But what is it really like to be a doctor or nurse on the frontlines of the Covid-19 crisis?
We have heard news from hospitals, clinics and care homes, but this documentary aims to tell the stories first hand.
Filmed by the NHS workers themselves on their smartphones, this is the personal story of the people in the fight against coronavirus.
But it’s not just footage from the frontline, these NHS workers also film themselves at home, with their families and through the quiet moments, revealing what they are going through to keep people alive.
Among others, we hear from Luke, an intensive care nurse. He’s usually the life and soul of the party, but he’s experiencing devastation on a daily basis.
With so many people dying alone in his ward, with their families shut out, he has to make unbelievably difficult decisions about whose hand to hold in their last moments, and who to leave.
Meanwhile, the pandemic makes Rony, a confident ICU consultant, face his own mortality and what it would mean for his young family if he wasn’t there.
Elsewhere, the outbreak has forced Jess and Richard, at opposite ends of the country, into new roles, facing new challenges.
We also hear from a paramedic and a chief executive as this intimate film reveals the sacrifices people are facing to save as many people as possible.