{"id":7043,"date":"2020-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2020-06-15T01:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T01:09:14","slug":"elma-cavalida-maternity-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=7043","title":{"rendered":"Elma Cavalida, Maternity Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Elma Cavalida \u2013 a Maternity Assistant at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. London, England \u2013 passed away on 26 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Elma was 49 years old.<\/p>\n

Her death comes amid suggestions that those from ethnic minority backgrounds should be moved away from the front line to non-patient facing roles, as UK data shows they are \u2018disproportionately affected by Covid-19\u2019.<\/p>\n

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in mid-February and told that her condition was \u2018curable\u2019, but she would have to go through at least a year-and-a-half of treatment. The maternity assistant decided to continue working at the hospital until her chemotherapy started in late-March, but took every precaution possible, even buying her own stash of PPE equipment. After her last day of work in late March, she came home with a fever and told her husband that some of her colleagues had similar symptoms but she doubted it was coronavirus.<\/p>\n

On April 1, Elma came down with a high temperature and was told to come straight to Barnet General Hospital, where she was diagnosed with Covid-19. Her condition had dramatically worsened by April 8 and she was put in the ICU on a ventilator.<\/p>\n

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