A nurse cried for two hours after walking out of an NHS shift because of lack of PPE.
The NHS worker - using the alias of Maria - called into This Morning to share her sad story with the nation on Monday.
Maria* said she abandoned her NHS post last week because she was not "comfortable" with the personal protective equipment (PPE) she had been offered.
She expressed her concerns to Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes on live television.
The key worker voiced her fears of spreading the deadly virus through homes and other hospitals where she works.
It also plagued her mind she could pass the coronavirus infection onto her father whom she lives with.
She told the presenters: "We have one mask one per shift, we were told to hold back on PPE, I didn't feel comfortable with the PPE I had been offered. I cried for two hours in my car.
"It went against everything I believe, it goes against everything I had to go by. I had to do it, I don't want to be responsible for infecting my father, I live with my father...
"My colleagues understood where I was coming from, they know the situation, they understood it. I go into homes, other hospitals, I could go and infect other people."
Maria* said NHS workers shouldn't be made to feel "unsafe" working on the frontline to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
The nurse explained she would have "stayed and helped" her patients if the proper PPE had been available to her.
Instead, she come to the solution she was going to source her own PPE so she could return to work "feeling safe".
She said: "I'd rather have the proper PPE - if I had it, what happened last week would never have happened, I would have stayed and helped my patients.
"There is something that can be done, but we shouldn't have to go to work feeling unsafe - a lot of the frontline is still like that - they are not properly protected.
"I have now taken the decision to source my own PPE, then I can go back to work feeling safe. I'm looking online, people are sending me stuff. I'm trying my best as I want to feel safe and go back to work."
*Maria was an alias used by the nurse while she appeared on This Morning.
