as the pandemic continued, the stakes remained high for health care workers. shall we have a look injasmine s box? jasmine, look what s in there. look, we have mummy s lanyards. wow! one of mummy s lanyards, look. in january 2021, health care assistant becky regan was working at the north tyneside hospital. she had three daughters and was around seven months pregnant with her fourth. and mummy used to put it around her neck like that when she went into work, didn t she? wow! that s mummy s phone. there were patients with covid on her ward. there s mummy. who s that? mama, jazzy. yeah. imiss mummy. i know. where is she? up the sky. up the sky, yeah. right, right. becky had a history of difficult pregnancies. this is a teddy bear and it s got my mummy is an nhs hero on. how did she feel about being pregnant during a pandemic
ijust said, no, you re not going to die. you re stronger than this. then they came on the phone and they said, she s got to go. we ve got to take her down. and they said, will you just tell her you ll look after her girls? so, that s. .. becky had an emergency caesarean. she died a week later. her baby, jasmine, survived. nurses caring for her kept a diary. we re so sorry for your loss. you re having lots of cuddles. you re active and alert, kicking around your incubator. you love your milk, we give it to you every two hours. 0h. jasmine, who s two, now lives with her grandma tracey. angel cakes, girls. becky s daughters are among almost 800 families across the uk who got a one off payment of £60,000 under a government scheme for health and social care workers who died.
and says as community transmission increased, it became difficult to be certain where people were infected. connie! as the pandemic continued, the stakes remained high for health care workers. shall we have a look injasmine s box? jasmine, look what s in there. look, we have mummy s lanyards. wow! one of mummy s lanyards, look. in january 2021, health care assistant becky regan was working at the north tyneside hospital. she had three daughters and was around seven months pregnant with her fourth. and mummy used to put it around her neck like that when she went into work, didn t she? wow! that s mummy s phone. there were patients with covid on her ward. there s mummy. who s that? mama, jazzy. yeah. imiss mummy. i know. where is she? up the sky. up the sky, yeah. right, right. becky had a history of difficult pregnancies. this is a teddy bear and it s got my mummy
it s only paid if it s more likely than not the individual got the virus at work. an inquest later this year will consider the circumstances of becky s death. northumbria health care trust says it s deeply saddened by her loss and says it s always followed national covid guidance. from the start of the pandemic, there was concern about the number of doctors, nurses and other staff who were dying. in 2020, a review was ordered into the deaths of health and social care workers. the aim to ensure lessons were learned to help protect front line staff, something the then health secretary matt hancock said in this letter was owed to those who d given their lives in duty and in service. the review has never been published. we ve talked to some people involved in it, they don t want to speak out publicly but say they re unhappy that it s not
is an nhs hero on. how did she feel about being pregnant during a pandemic and working in a hospital? really anxious. she did have a lot of time off sick because of anxiety levels. from the start of the pandemic, pregnant women were thought to be at greater risk from the virus. we re talking the nhs had a vulnerable, high risk pregnancy girl at 29 year old. she should never have been there. not for one shift, two shift or any shifts at all. she should ve been sent home. becky got sick with covid. she was admitted to hospital and later treated in intensive care. becky phoned me up at quarter to three in the morning and she did say to us, i m going to die. she said, i m going to die. will you look after me girls? it s awful.