NHS worker, 25, dies from Covid days after going to hospital 'to get checked'

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NHS worker dies from Covid days after going to hospital ‘to get checked out’

Lauren Jones died days after going to hospital to 'get checked out'Credit: Wales News Service

Paul and Karen Jones last spoke to their daughter two days before her death when she told them 'not to worry'. Lauren, a GP receptionist who would have been due a Covid vaccine in days as a frontline NHS worker, died in the early hours on December 30 at Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant.Paul, who works as a police officer,: "I watched her walk from the car to the hospital. I thought she would have been out later that day."

Lauren did not speak to her parents until the next day, when she was receiving treatment to aid her breathing.Paul said: "She said she'd just had a little bit of ice cream and some water and was going back on the C-PAP machine. She said not to worry.Lauren suffered from high blood pressure but her parents said the condition would not have seen her classed as high risk.

 

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