A ‘vaccine hesitant’ NHS worker has tragically died with Covid just days after she decided to get the vaccine . Fila Lutu, 37, had expressed concerns about the vaccine after reportedly suffering bad reactions to jabs for other diseases.
Sadly, Miss Lutu tested positive for the virus in December and died several days later, following complications from the virus.Her devastated family were prevented from travelling with her in the ambulance on the way to the hospital due to strict Covid rules meaning the NHS worker passed away before they could say goodbye.
Fila Lutu, 37, had expressed concerns about the vaccine after reportedly suffering bad reactions to jabs for other diseases.The NHS Covid-19 support administrator changed her mind after the Government unveiled plans to force NHS workers to get vaccinated before April 2022 or get sackedMiss Lutu started working for North Middlesex University Hospital in July 2020, before becoming an Employee Relations Officer a year later.
The NHS worker, who was born in the Congo and first came to the UK in 1993, started feeling unwell when she came back from France on December 12. She later tested positive for Covid and her symptoms worsened.After five days, she struggled to eat and was in a great deal of pain, according to her younger sister Lauren.
She told local media that she found Miss Lutu experiencing cold sweats and crying ‘God help me’ as she suffered chest pains.Paramedics conducted an ECG reading and told Lauren and her mother that Miss Lutu was showing signs of someone having a heart attack.
The NHS worker was rushed to King George Hospital in Ilford but sadly they could not go with her, due to strict Covid restrictions in place.Lauren and her mother exchanged their goodbyes with Miss Lutu and went back into the house, not knowing that it would be their last ever goodbye.
Miss Lutu called her mother from hospital early on December 19 to tell her that the medication she was on was not easing the pain.Later that day, Miss Lutu’s mother was told her daughter was being transferred to a London hospital before she went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated.
