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A nurse who beat coronavirus at a hospital in Teesside has shared her experience at Good Morning Britain.
Millie Magadlela spent three days on a ventilator in the critical care unit at North Tees University Hospital in Stockton.
The 59-year-old man, who works in the surgical decision unit at the hospital, was applauded and applauded by NHS staff while leaving intensive care.
Millie told ITV presenters Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid on Monday how she was treating suspected COVID-19 patients when she became ill herself.
She said: “I was trying, most of them were, like suspicious cases where it is not known if they have the virus or not.
“But I had a very poor patient on Sunday night that we really suspected might be positive and I think that’s when I started having symptoms.”
“But we have been wearing our PPE, at that time we had surgical gloves, we had our aprons and masks.”
When asked by Piers Morgan if she felt adequately protected while working at the hospital, she replied, “At that point, that’s what we had.”
“I felt protected because I had the surgical mask on, I had the gloves on, I had the apron on.”
“I think when I was sick most of the PPE came in at that time.
“At the time, that’s what we were using in the department.”
Viewers heard how Millie, who trained as a nurse in South Africa in the 1980s, had never been to the hospital as a patient before.
Piers Morgan asked Millie, who has worked at North Tees University Hospital for 11 years, how it feels to have her colleagues save her life.
She said: “It was really a different experience to be patient, seeing your colleagues working tirelessly to save your life was very, very different for me.”
Millie said medical personnel kept her informed of what was happening before they took her to the intensive care unit and sedated her.
She told the show that she was so ill that she had completely forgotten about her 35th wedding anniversary.
Millie said, “I never thought about the anniversary because it was so wrong.
“I haven’t celebrated. We will at some point when I feel much better.”
Millie was joined by her colleague Stephanie Gale, clinical coordinator for critical care at the hospital.
Susanna asked Steph if caring for a colleague was different.
Steph said: “It is definitely obviously very scary under the current circumstances, but we wanted to do our best for Millie and see her leave the hospital, we are sure we did the best we could.”
He also asked Steph if applauding a nurse or a staff member, having beaten the virus, was a very different feeling.
She said, “It was definitely a moral boost, we had a lot of tears from Millie and from many staff members working alongside Millie.”
“It was definitely just the big boost we all needed to help us get through these busy times.”
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Millie, who has worked as a nurse for 39 years, started feeling sick on Sunday, March 29.
She felt tired, lethargic, and had a high temperature when she returned home from her shift.
Millie spent the next few days isolating herself at her Stockton home with her husband Mongezi Spencer, 59, who works as a rookie.
Her symptoms worsened and she developed more painful pains in her knees and lower back.
He also experienced cramps and abdominal pain.
Millie called the NHS 111 service, which sent an ambulance to her home.
They took her to North Tees University Hospital, where she was evaluated for emergency care, given antibiotics, and also had an x-ray.
Millie was then transferred to the emergency evaluation unit and then to the respiratory unit before finally being transferred to the intensive care unit.
While on a ventilator, the NHS staff worked tirelessly to save his life.
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