A nurse at Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool, who stayed past retirement age because she loved her job, has died of coronavirus.
68-year-old Liz Glanister is the latest frontline NHS worker to have passed away from the deadly virus.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief nurse Dianne Brown confirmed the news of Miss Glanister’s death and said she will be missed by everyone.
Dianne Brown said: “All our thoughts are with Liz’s family at this time and we offer them our sincere condolences. Liz will be sadly missed by all those who knew and worked with her.”
Colleagues and family paid tribute to the loving nurse who stayed past retirement age because she loved doing her job.
Miss Glanister was a mentor to the younger staff and was called a ‘work mum’ by her colleagues.
Miss Glanister is not the only frontline worker who has died of coronavirus. Earlier, a 54-year-old NHS midwife named Lynsay Coventry died after testing positive for coronavirus.
23-year-old John Alagos, a youngest British medic, died at his home after a 12-hour shift of coronavirus.
A 36-year-old Walsall staff nurse Amreema Nasreen also died of coronavirus, leaving behind her three children.
A 39-year-old nurse at the QEQM Hospital in Margate, Kent, Aimee O’Rourke, also lost her battle to coronavirus.
Several NHS workers have urged the public to stay at home amid coronavirus pandemic to prevent the spread of the virus by sharing their messages online.
An NHS nurse named Hollie Kirk, from Devon, urged everyone to follow the guidelines and shared a post on Facebook blasting the people who are spreading the virus by going out and not practicing social distancing amid coronavirus crisis.
Hollie, who works at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon, said this is not a JOKE and definitely not a HOLIDAY so you can go out with your family and have fun.
She said NHS workers are working round-the-clock and putting their lives at risk just to save others but people are not doing their part by staying at home.
Her powerful message went viral online and people applauded her for the post that she shared for those who are taking the virus as a joke and helping it spread to millions.
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