Medics who treated Westminster attack victims 'shocked and depressed' at copycat London Bridge atrocity

Dr Katherine Henderson from Guy's and St Thomas'.
Andrew Buurman

Staff at the hospital closest to the Westminster Bridge attack were “shocked and depressed” by the copycat atrocity on London Bridge, a senior medic said today.

Doctors and nurses ran out of St Thomas’ hospital to treat victims run over by a car driven by Khalid Masood in March.

The hospital was back on the front line on Saturday night, receiving nine victims injured on London Bridge and at Borough Market — the first brought in by police.

Dr Katherine Henderson, clinical lead for the emergency department at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, said: “I think everyone was shocked and deeply depressed that it was happening again.

“The Westminster event was not that long ago. Borough Market is very near. It’s at the heart of our patient population. It’s at the heart of where we go out and socialise.”

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One of the eight people killed was Kirsty Boden, 28, a staff nurse at Guy’s, who was stabbed after going to help victims. Doctors, alerted by What’s App message groups, rushed back to work.

Dr Henderson cycled in from her home near the Globe theatre. She said: “Somebody has randomly decided to injure total strangers.

This is someone who has made a choice, who has made a decision to injure people they know nothing about.

“That is why terrorism is so shocking. It’s shocking to have to treat people that have been injured like that.”

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