CANDIJAY, Bohol — “I will be back.”
This was the promise made by Estrella Bersamen-Catalan to her family while she was taken to the hospital due to back pains a few weeks ago.
But the 52-year-old nurse from Bohol never had the chance to fulfill her vow.
Last Feb. 5, Catalan succumbed to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) in the United Kingdom, where she worked for almost two decades as a staff nurse of the emergency department.
“It’s heartbreaking,” said her mother Pacita Timario-Bersamen of her daughter’s death.
“She was a very good daughter and I’m proud of her,” said Pacita of Estrella, her second child.
Pacita, …
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