VIRUS VICTIM: ‘KIND AND LOVING FATHER’ REMEMBERED
Plea from family to heed medical advice
THE DAUGHTERS of the first named victim of coronavirus in Yorkshire have urged people to take health advice about the illness seriously.
Leonard Gibson, 78, who also had the lung disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, died at the Northern General Hospital, in Sheffield, on Tuesday, just days after testing positive for Covid-19.
His daughters, Lisa Broughton and Michelle Lenton, paid tribute to their “kind, loving” father and appealed to people to show “community spirit, kindness and vigilance”.
Mr Gibson, who lived in sheltered accommodation in Oughtibridge, Sheffield, was admitted to hospital on Saturday after continuing to feel unwell following a course of antibiotics.
He tested positive for coronavirus following his admission and died three days later.
Mrs Broughton and Mrs Lenton urged everyone to take the advice
Make sure those people who may be alone are able to manage.
Mr Gibson’s daughters Lisa Broughton and Michelle Lenton asked people to be kind.
being given by Public Health England and the Government seriously, and to “take time to make sure those people who may be alone or more vulnerable are able to manage over the next few months”.
They praised the NHS and staff at the hospital for going “the extra mile” for their family and their father.
They said: “We have nothing but praise for the NHS and our dad’s treatment, especially the kindness that everyone showed us.
“For example, when we could not be there in person, we rang lots of times to see how he was.
“Even though they were probably very busy, every member of staff took time to talk to us in detail, but, more importantly, they made sure dad knew each time that we had phoned and that we had said we loved him.
“A small thing but so important to us at that time.”