‘I’d rather risk death than go in hospital’
FURTHER to the letter by Chris Barton, headlined ‘Our private sector depends on NHS’ (Sentinel, March 24).
Firstly, I would like to say that I would not be glad to be admitted to hospital under any circumstances.
As I told my partner and friends, if I did get the Covid virus I would have to be treated at home or not at all. I would rather risk death than go into an NHS hospital.
I would have liked to have had a home delivery for my youngest child, but was refused.
I had experienced bullying midwives over my first two children, so was not ‘over the moon’ at the prospect of going in. I know that there are other mothers who had experienced this.
Luckily, I had an excellent midwife and as my son commented – third time lucky.
Nevertheless, I came out 12 hours after the birth as I did not want to stay in under any circumstances.
As for NHS staff paying tax into the system, that can never be. All of their income is paid by the taxpayer, courtesy of the private sector.
So any income tax they pay has already come from the private sector.
The private sector funds all of the public sector, so in turn it pays to keep its own staff healthy, courtesy of corporation tax and income tax from employees’ income.
And Mr Barton, I pray to God that I will never have the need to go into hospital and that I die either at home or in a care home.
“The new policy pours gasoline on the growing flames of nationalism and threatens to destroy – not unite – the UK ”
S CLARKE BLURTON