Letter: Strike action putting lives at risk

Why are they so happy to hold up their placards with such joy when real people are suffering through their non-attendance at work.

I just hope no-one dies as a result. Perhaps we need to vote to stay in the EU so it won’t be too hard to recruit foreign doctors to replace our UK strikers!

At one picket line a placard read ‘honk if you believe in the NHS’. Do we not all believe in the NHS?

I wonder how many honks they’d get if the message was ‘honk if you believe I’m putting my patients’ lives at risk’.

Now compare these poor medical souls, being asked to work weekends, with those who work in the care industry.

Maybe not as highly qualified but dedicated to their important role in society. Do they strike and put their charges lives at risk?

Of course they don’t. Just think about the reward each gets. A junior doctor starts at about £22,000 which will rise year by year – and I’m sure they deserve it. But compare this with someone working in a care home getting the new rate of £7.20 an hour (if they are over 25), and I wonder how long it will be before care home owners start replacing the over 25s with younger people.

So there you have it. The junior doctors on their picket lines, the patients missing their operations and surgery, and the care home workers on their national living wage.

All that’s missing is for the world to stop going mad and for everyone to do their bit to help their fellow man and woman.

Brian Holmes

Beech View, Walkington