Areema Nasreen and Aimee O’Rourke RIP

Two NHS nurses in their 30's each of whom left behind three children, have died after contracting COVID-19.

England's chief nursing officer and Health Secretary Matt Hancock paid tribute at yesterday's press conference to Areema Nasreen and Aimee O’Rourke.

Areema Nasreen, a 36-year-old NHS nurse from Walsall in the West Midlands, who was believed to have had no underlying health issues, died shortly after midnight on Thursday in intensive care at Walsall Manor hospital, where she had worked for 16 years.

Paying tribute to Nasreen, Toby Lewis, chief executive of the neighbouring Sandwell and West Birmingham hospitals NHS trust, said it was clear from experiences overseas – in particular Italy, where dozens of nurses and doctors have died – that health care workers were at risk. “They are at risk not only from the patients we look after but from each other. There is additional grief counselling and psychological support being provided to staff because they are working in situations that are very different to those that they have worked in,” he said.

Aimee O’Rourke’s daughter Megan Murphy described her as an angel in a Facebook tribute. She wrote: “Look at all the lives you looked after and all the families you comforted when patients passed away. You are an angel and you will wear your NHS crown for evermore because you earned that crown the very first day you started!

Cabinet office minister Michael Gove said in today's Coronavirus briefing conference that the number of NHS health professionals who have died after contracting COIVD-19 is currently seven.

Rest in Peace.

NHS frontline staff are risking their lives for us every day.

The best memorial we can give to Areema Nasreen, Aimee O'Rourke and the other five heroes who have died caring for the sick and protecting us is to protect their NHS colleagues who are still at work by observing the social distancing advice

Stay home; protect the NHS; save lives.


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