Carol Jamabo, a
caregiver, has reportedly died from COVID-19 complications in the United
Kingdom.
The mother of two,
who worked as a caregiver at the Cherish Elderly Care in Bury, Greater
Manchester, was said to have passed away on Wednesday after reportedly testing
positive for the virus.
According to the
BBC, Jamabo became ill at her home and was taken to hospital.
While she is
believed to have Asthma, the 56-year-old is suspected to be the first care
giver to die of the disease in the UK.
Jamabo moved to the
UK from Nigeria in the early 1990s and served as a healthcare worker for over
25 years.
She was said to have
worked both with the prison service and as a National Health Service (NHS)
administrator at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust in London.
While confirming her
death, Dakuro Fiberesima, her nephew, said she was transferred to an intensive
care unit at the Salford Royal Hospital, but that her condition worsened.
“It happened so
rapidly. No one was by her side. With the ventilator decision, you just get a
call they are planning to turn the ventilator off,” Fiberesima was quoted to
have said.
“You wonder if you
were there, whether that would make a difference? She was such a popular
person, there would have been people there to fight her corner so to speak.
“The youngest son is
in a terrible position. He was extremely close to her. He was living with her.
She was just an amazing aunt.”
With the global
death toll from COVID-19 on the rise, about 51,608 cases of the disease have
been confirmed in the UK while 5,373 persons have so far died from it,
according to Worldometres.
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