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Emails reveal doctor’s plea for PPE before Covid-19 death

Emails reveal doctor’s plea for PPE before Covid-19 death

Dr Peter Tun’s messages show he warned Royal Berkshire hospital about lack of vital equipment

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An NHS doctor who died of Covid-19 had pleaded in vain for his hospital to provide protective equipment in the days before he caught the virus, emails shared with the Guardian by his family show.

Dr Peter Tun, from Reading, died on 13 April. Three weeks before his death, he warned Royal Berkshire hospital that unless they supplied the vital kit he and his colleagues needed to avoid becoming infected, “it will be too little and too late”.

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