Senior nurse is clapped home by colleagues after beating coronavirus

Senior nurse is clapped home by colleagues after beating coronavirus

A senior nurse who spent 41 days in intensive care due to coronavirus has returned home after being given an emotional send-off by hospital staff.

Colleagues from Bradford Royal Infirmary gathered to clap and cheer as 52-year-old Ayesha Orlanda finally left the hospital.

Ayesha, a Senior Sister on the BRI’s Acute Dialysis Unit, was brought into hospital suffering from the virus in May and was initially cared for in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where she needed to be put on a ventilator as she was critically ill.

After 40 days in a coma, she regained consciousness and was transferred to a ward to continue her recovery.

In total she spent 67 days in hospital.