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‘Caring and kind’ healthcare worker dies after testing positive for Covid-19
Helen Mills (Handout/PA)
A hospital in Wales has paid tribute to a “caring, kind and well-respected” healthcare worker who died after testing positive for coronavirus.
Swansea Bay University Health Board said Helen Mills, 56, who worked in the minor injury unit at Neath Port Talbot Hospital, provided “much happiness and laughter” to her colleagues.
A statement released by the health board on Saturday said Mrs Mills, who lived in Port Talbot, had worked as a healthcare support worker in the unit since 2008.
“Her colleagues at the minor injury unit described Helen, aged 56, as very caring, kind and a well-respected member of the MIU family,” the statement added.
Hospitals in Wales are almost full due to a surge in the number of patients with coronavirus, the director of the Welsh NHS Confederation has said.
Darren Hughes warned that more hospitals around the country could soon suspend non-urgent care after two health boards said they were doing so in response to a large increase in cases.
The warning came as health minister Vaughan Gething said more than 14,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 had been recorded in Wales in the last week, while an intensive care consultant called for the planned relaxation of rules over Christmas to be aborted and the country put into immediate lockdown.
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Hospitals in Wales are almost full due to a surge in the number of patients with coronavirus, the director of the Welsh NHS Confederation has said.
Darren Hughes warned that more hospitals around the country could soon suspend non-urgent care after two health boards said they were doing so in response to a large increase in cases.
The warning came as health minister Vaughan Gething said more than 14,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 had been recorded in Wales in the last week, while an intensive care consultant called for the planned relaxation of rules over Christmas to be aborted and the country put into immediate lockdown.