Devastating story behind photo of mother and daughter
A British woman has desperately spoken out with a heartfelt plea after she was forced to watch her mother die in the hospital bed next to her.
Both of the women were admitted to hospital after coronavirus “ravaged through” their family late last year.
Ultimately the family lost its oldest member.
Anabel Sharma, 49, spent almost two months in hospital, and since her recovery she has shared a haunting photo showing the final moments she shared with her 76-year-old mother Maria.
After spending a fortnight in intensive care in the same hospital together, Maria held hands with her daughter for the last time and shared her funeral wishes, iTV reported.
“All I heard was ‘funeral’, she said ‘cremation’ and I said to the doctors I can’t hear what she’s saying.
“She was telling me not to be scared and that I had to keep fighting for the children but that she had had enough,” Ms Sharma told the UK broadcaster.
The doctor also informed her that her mother had earlier signed a Do Not Resuscitate order.
The doctor bluntly told her: “your mum is dying.”
Ms Sharma believes the novel coronavirus tore through her family at a “frightening” speed, starting with her son who she thinks caught it at school.
“I would ask people to follow all the precautions and think of others,” she said.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered England into a new national lockdown to try to slow a Covid-19 surge.
He says hospitals are at breaking point, and he wants to not overwhelm parts of the health system.
“As I speak to you tonight, our hospitals are under more pressure from Covid than any time since the start of the pandemic," Johnson said on Monday (local time).
“With most of the country already under extreme measures, it's clear that we need to do more together to bring this new variant under control.
“We must therefore go into a national lockdown, which is tough enough to contain this variant. That means the government is once again instructing you to stay at home.”