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Apr 2020
Last Updated: 14/04/2020
Harrogate hospital pays tribute as nurse dies from coronavirus
Harrogate District Hospital has paid tribute to one of its nurses who died after contracting coronavirus.
Harrogate District Hospital has paid tribute to one of its nurses who died after contracting coronavirus.
Zauma Ekoli, known as Josie, had been working at the hospital as an agency worker for the past two years.
She was admitted to Leeds General Infirmary, a hospital where she used to work, last Tuesday after becoming unwell.
Just under a week later on Monday she died in the hospital.
Harrogate hospital said that she will be sadly missed by all her friends and colleagues and passed on its thoughts to her family.
The chief nurse at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, Jill Foster, said:
“Zauma Ekoli, known as Josie, was a much-valued agency nurse who has worked with the Trust for the past two years. She worked a range of shifts in a number of wards and departments. Josie will be sadly missed by all her friends and colleagues at Harrogate District Hospital and our thoughts are with her family at this difficult time.”
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