Coronavirus: Coming 5,000 miles to die for the NHS
, who had Pakistani heritage."We mourn the passing of our colleagues in the fight against COVID-19," says Dr Salman Waqer of the British Islamic Medical Association."They enriched our country. Without them, we would not have an NHS."On Facebook, her daughter Megan Murphy wrote:"You are an angel and you will wear your NHS crown forever more because you earned that crown the very first day you started.
Adil returned to Khartoum in 2010, to set up an organ transplant unit."He wanted to give something back to the less fortunate in Sudan," his son Osman explains. Since Adil's death, his family has received dozens of phone calls from people in Sudan, telling them about their father's charity work. They knew their dad spent a lot of time helping people back home in Sudan - they'd overhear his phone calls.
When both doctors got sick, they didn't think much of it, their families say. Amged was the first to fall ill. His mother had recently recovered from a nasty bout of pneumonia, and in late February, after finishing a long shift, he drove to Bristol to see her. Amged felt unwell in the car, but assumed he was probably just exhausted.
Over the next few days, his condition deteriorated. On the 20 March, Abeer didn't like how her dad looked - he was breathless, and couldn't string a sentence together - and she called an ambulance. Doctors at West Middlesex University Hospital put Adil on a ventilator. But even then, alarm bells weren't ringing."We thought, this is bad," says Osman."But we had no idea it would be fatal.
Adil spent decades serving the NHS. But his family feels that the NHS didn't do enough for him in return, by giving him the protective gear that might have prevented him contracting coronavirus."I think it's unbelievable in the UK in 2020 that we're battling a life-threatening disease, and our frontline staff are not being safely equipped with PPE to do their job," says Osman."Bottom line is that it's wrong and it needs to be addressed immediately.
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