{"id":5487,"date":"2020-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=5487"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:45:30","slug":"ate-wilma-banaag-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=5487","title":{"rendered":"Ate Wilma Banaag, Nurse"},"content":{"rendered":" <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Ate_Wilma_Banaag.jpeg?w=810\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <p><p>Ate Wilma Banaag &ndash; a Nurse at Watford General Hospital, Watford, England &ndash; passed away after suffering from COVID-19.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Nurse Ate Wilma Banaag worked at Watford General Hospital for almost two decades, after arriving in the UK from the Philippines in January 2001.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A fundraising page set up in her memory describes her as &lsquo;a much-valued staff nurse on the ward, a very caring, compassionate, soft-spoken and hard-working nurse&rsquo;, adding that in her final working days she was caring for patients on a COVID-19 ward. &lsquo;She was a devoted mother of three and a loving wife,&rsquo; it says.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/rcni.com\/nursing-standard\/features\/covid-19-remembering-nursing-staff-who-have-lost-their-lives-160011\">Nursing Standard<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?page_id=303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please help us in adding details.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p><p><\/p>\n \n \n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ate Wilma Banaag &ndash; a Nurse at Watford General Hospital, Watford, England &ndash; passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Nurse Ate Wilma Banaag worked at Watford General Hospital for almost two decades, after arriving in the UK from the Philippines in January 2001. 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