A leading charity has offered additional support for the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic.
Marie Curie has pledged to support additional dying patients across Cumbria to help relieve pressure on NHS during Coronavirus crisis
The terminal illness charity is geared up to care for additional patients at the end of life across Cumbria following the news that the number of coronavirus deaths in the UK has jumped by more than 100 in a day for the first time.
The charity needs to raise £2.5million a week to continue to run its essential frontline services.
Marie Curie’s chief executive Matthew Reed has released a stark warning that the charity desperately needs more donations from people across Cumbria if it is to continue caring for dying people and help the NHS cope with the Coronavirus crisis.
He said: “At this time of national emergency, Marie Curie Nurses and frontline staff are needed more than ever as the NHS is put under ever greater strain. We’re ready and geared up to help, with hospice beds and nurses on standby.”
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