复活节出院！英国首相约翰逊发视频感谢医护的“救命之恩”（附视频&演讲稿）

当地时间4月12日，因新冠肺炎进入ICU治疗的55岁英国首相约翰逊(Boris Johnson)宣布出院。在出院后，约翰逊透露，自己在住院期间有48小时非常危险，“任何事情都有可能发生”。他还向救治他的医务人员表达了感谢。

约翰逊出院后，又在推特上发布了视频，向英国公众“报平安”。提到自身病情时，约翰逊说：“在上周的某一段时间内确实非常黑暗。如今我感到非常幸运。”

约翰逊视频的主要内容则是感谢医务人员。约翰逊称，他目睹了前线医务工作人员的“个人勇气”，并特别强调有两名护士──来自新西兰的Jenny和来自葡萄牙的Luis──在他病情最严峻的48小时内，一直站在病床前进行护理：“我的身体最终能够获得足够氧气的原因是，他们在那一夜的每一秒都在看护着我，他们都在进行我需要的干预措施。”

另外，约翰逊还提到了几名其他医务工作人员的名字，并且表示了感谢：“毫无疑问，他们拯救了我的生命。很难找到语言来表达我的感激之情。”

约翰逊还提到自己在住院期间，亲身感受到了“NHS(英国国家医疗服务系统)所经受的压力”。他坦言，NHS的医务工作人员“让自己一直处于危险之中，一直处于这一致命病毒的风险之下。我想感谢这种勇气，有这种付出、责任感和爱，我们的NHS是不可战胜的。”

约翰逊另外也对遵守抗疫封锁措施的英国民众表示赞赏。他说，“数百万人耐心地度过了自我隔离禁足的艰难时光，他们有对他人和自己的关心。”但他也同时强调：“斗争尚未结束。”

英国首相府表示，约翰逊在出院后，将前往契克斯庄园进行调养。在医疗人员的建议下，约翰逊不会立刻返回工作岗位。契克斯庄园自1921年成为英国首相可使用的乡间别墅，与约翰逊一同前往的还有他的未婚怀孕中女友Carrie Symonds。她在约翰逊出院后表示：“上周确实有一段时间非常黑暗。但如今我感到异常幸运。”预计将在夏天临盆的 Carrie Symonds此前在出现新冠症状后进行了自我隔离，但从未进行检测，目前已经恢复。在约翰逊住院期间，她还曾传腹中孩子的超音波图像给约翰逊加油打气。

英国政府将在4月16日对目前的抗疫封锁措施进行评估，但首相府拒绝就约翰逊是否将参与这一评估进行回应。据《每日电讯报》报道，目前英国内阁内部对约翰逊是否应该参与意见不一。BBC报道称，有内部人员透露，约翰逊预计将在最长一个月内完全恢复工作状态。

Good afternoon. I have today left hospital after a week in which the NHS has saved my life. No question. It’s hard to find words to express my debt, but before I come to that, I want to thank everyone in the entire UK for the effort and the sacrifice you have made, and are making. When the sun is out and the kids are at home, when the whole natural world seems that its loveliest and the outdoors is so inviting, I can only imagine how tough it has been to follow the rules on social distancing.

I thank you because so many millions and millions of people across this country have been doing the right thing. Millions going through the hardship of self isolation faithfully, patiently, and with thought and care others as well as for themselves. I want you to know that this Easter Sunday, I do believe that your efforts are worth it and are daily proving their worth. Because although we mourn every day, those who are taken from us in such numbers and though the struggle is by no means over, we are not making progress in this incredible national battle against coronavirus.

A fight we never picked against an enemy we still don’t entirely understand. We’re making progress in this national battle because the British public formed a human shield around this country’s greatest national asset, our National Health Service. We understood and we decided that if together we could keep our NHS safe, if we could stop our NHS from being overwhelmed, then we could not be beaten, and this country would rise together and overcome this challenge as we have overcome so many challenges in the past.

In the last seven days, I have of course seen the pressure that the NHS is under. I’ve seen the personal courage, not just of the doctors and nurses, but of everyone, the cleaners, the cooks, the healthcare workers of every description. Physios, radiographers, pharmacists who kept coming to work, kept putting themselves in harm’s way, kept risking this deadly virus.

It is thanks to that courage, that devotion, that duty and that love that our NHS has been unbeatable. I want to pay my own thanks to the utterly brilliant doctors, leaders in their fields, men and women, but several of them for some reason called Nick, who took some crucial decisions a few days ago, which I will be grateful for the rest of my life. I want to thank the many nurses, men and women whose care has been so astonishing. I’m going to forget some names, so please forgive me, but I want to thank Po Ling and Shannon and Emily and Angel and Connie and Becky and Rachel and Nikki and Anne. And I hope they won’t mind if I mention in particular two nurses who stood by my bedside for 48 hours when things could have gone either way. They’re Jenny from Zealand Invercargill on the South Island to be exact, and Luis from Portugal near Porto.

And the reason in the end my body did start to get enough oxygen was because for every second of the night they were watching, and they were thinking and they were caring and making the interventions I needed. So that is how I also know that across this country, 24 hours a day, for every second of every hour, there are hundreds of thousands of NHS staff who are acting with the same care and thought and precision as Jenny and Luis.

That is why we will defeat this coronavirus and defeat it together. We will win because our NHS is the beating heart of this country. It is the best of this country. It is unconquerable. It is powered by love.

So thank you from me, from all of us to the NHS. Let’s remember to follow the rules on social distancing. Stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives. Thank you and happy Easter.

Boris Johnson, the prime minister there in that video statement released on Twitter just a short time ago after his week in hospital in which he was in intensive care. Looking remarkably strong there and addressing the nation with those words. Thanking the NHS staff in particular who had stayed by his side, those two nurses who had kept him going with oxygen on that particular night where he felt it could have gone either way, and that they had, in his words, saved his life. No question about that.

So, that was the latest from the prime minister. He’s now been released St. Thomas’s hospital in London. He is going to continue his convalescence checkers after being in Downing Street this afternoon.