By last week 1 010 public sector healthcare workers in the Western Cape had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Of these six had passed away of Covid-19. Anncha Kepkey, a nurse at Tygerberg Hospital, is among those who died. Biénne Huisman spoke to her husband about who Anncha was and what happened in the last days of her life.
Bleary-eyed, he reached to her side of the bed on the right saying: “Moenie worry nie my maatjie. Vandag kom jy van daai ventilator af.” .However, a few hours later, a nurse from Melomed Hospital in Bellville called to say that Anncha had passed away – at 4:15am. According to figures released by the Western Cape Health Department last week, the province recorded 1 010 confirmed Covid-19 cases among doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers in the public sector.Anncha was laid to rest at Durbanville Memorial Park on Wednesday.‘Love of my life’This was when he cried, while driving back home afterward.In an emotional interview, George paid tribute to Anncha who he says is the love of his life.
“Past midnight at home, I had fallen asleep in front of the TV, fully clothed, when she messaged me to say that they’re keeping her there at the hospital. She said she had tested positive and that Angeo and I need to get tested as soon as possible, too. Even then her main concern was for us. So, we did. We went to stand in line. We tested negative,” George says.“On Mother’s Day, May 10, Chadley called my wife.
“On the Tuesday, the doctors said she is stable, that the oxygen had increased in her lungs and that she is better,” George says. I called her my round little darling. We loved each other endlessly, my whole life revolved around her.“She just loved working with those really sick and injured people. I mean, you can imagine, it’s the worst in a way. All the injuries, the knife wounds, the bullet wounds. Everything comes in there, you see everything. And she had a passion for that. That trauma unit was her world. We came second as a family. My duty was to bring up the children, because she concentrated so much on her work.
Would you like to write a story about my family member who passed away from cancer a few weeks ago? No probably not cause some deaths are more important than others hey.
Since this level 3 began its all about death, does this mean the end for us all?
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