Victor tapah
Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong
INTENSIVE care nurse Victor, 33, came to Britain as an asylum seeker from Cameroon in 2012.
He said: “I’ve been left exhausted by this pandemic. Everyone’s talking about the wellbeing of nurses but you can’t do that if you’re not paying them properly.
“When I get to the end of the month I look at my pay packet and I wonder if this is all worth it.
“My dad recently became unwell back home in
Cameroon and I couldn’t afford to help my family with the bills. How can I be asked to do all this and yet I can’t even help my family?
“The 1% offer is insulting – it’s like the Government doesn’t understand how skilled and challenging the work we do is. I’m bitterly disappointed with them.”
A MAN, 50, has been arrested over the disappearance of a young mum and her two children.
Bennylyn Burke and her children were last seen at home in South Gloucestershire on February 17 and were reported missing to police on Monday.
Yesterday forensic officers were working at a house in Dundee after police cordoned the area off on Friday afternoon.
Det Supt Graeme Mackie said: “Officers attended a property on Troon Avenue around 15.20 on Friday as part of an inquiry into a missing woman, Bennylyn Burke, and two children.
“As a result, a 50-year-old man has been arrested and inquiries are ongoing.
“Bennylyn’s next of kin have been made aware.”
Mary, 28, was a pregnant nurse who died after contracting Covid-19.
She worked at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital right up to 32 weeks – before being admitted three weeks later complaining of shortness of breath and testing positive for coronavirus .
Her daughter, named after her mum, was delivered by emergency Caesarean section and survived.
Mary’s father Stephen had died with suspected Covid-19 two weeks earlier.
David Carter, chief executive of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said Mary, originally from Agogo in
Ghana, was a “fantastic nurse and a great example of what we stand for in this trust”.
She left husband, Ernest Boateng, and son AJ, who have since raised more £180,000 in her name. Ernest said his wife had a “pure heart”.