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Miners coming off the last shift at Kellingley Colliery in Knottingley, North Yorkshire on the final day of production, in December 2019
EX-MINERS in Scotland are being asked to sign “do not resuscitate” forms if they contract the coronavirus, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) told the Star today.
NUM general secretary Chris Kitchen, a former miner at Kellingley colliery in Yorkshire, said: “We have had information from Scotland that ex-miners were being contacted by the NHS and asked if they got it, would they not want to be resuscitated, and asked if they were happy to sign a ‘do not resuscitate’ note.
“You work all your life down the pit, fight for your country, then are told: ‘Do not bother us if you need help’.”
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