PRIDE OF A HELL DOC
A DOCTOR who dealt with some of Britain’s worst terror attacks has told of his professional pride and admiration for the team work during the atrocities.
Kevin Fong treated victims of the London Bridge atrocity two months ago, the 7/7 Tube and bus bombings in 2005 and the 1999 London nail-bombings.
Dr Fong, a consultant anaesthetist at University College London hospitals, got his first experience of the horrific affect of terrorism in the 1999 anti-gay explosion at the Admiral Duncan pub in central London’s Soho which killed three and injured dozens.
Dr Fong said: “I did find it hard in the weeks that followed that.
“I think that was when I learnt that you could separate something.
“That something could be at the same time horribly, horribly emotionally negative, but you could take professional pride in how you conducted yourselves and what you had done.”
He was also on duty when the alarm was raised following the London Bridge attack in June.
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