'My mummy was not cannon fodder.' Brenda Doherty, whose mother Ruth Burke was the first woman to die with Covid-19 in Northern Ireland, gives evidence covidinquiryuk MLChealth
She said that after then Prime Minister Boris Johnson had given his lockdown speech in March 2020 she received a call from the hospital asking if she agreed to her mother not receiving medical intervention.
Ms Doherty told the inquiry her family did not get her mother's clothes back. Instead they were incinerated.Image source,Brenda Doherty's mother Ruth was the fourth person in Northern Ireland to die after having contracted coronavirus She told the inquiry that it became apparent there were failings across the system, and that when it came to dealing with people who died from Covid "health trusts were all doing different things".
Some of the more controversial issues under examination include delayed lockdowns, the move to abandon testing in the community in March 2020, the approach to care homes and whether too many restrictions were imposed as the pandemic progressed.
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