BLACKBURN, England — After a year that has shaken Britain’s National Health Service to its core, women working at hospitals in the East Lancashire NHS Trust in England’s north-west talk about what the coronavirus crisis has meant to them.
THE CONSULTANT NURSE
At the end of each shift throughout the pandemic, consultant nurse Sheeba Philip knew she could take the virus home, where she was caring for her mother.
But every day she donned her protective equipment and carried on, driven by a sense of duty like so many other women on the front line against COVID-19.
“I knew that I couldn’t shield myself and every day the thought that you could be taking home (coronavirus)…
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