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Josephine Peter was described as a “highly respected diligent nurse”
A “bubbly” nurse who came to the UK from South Africa to bring her “passion for care” to the NHS died after contracting coronavirus.
Josephine Peter, who lived in Hayes, West London, had told her friends that she wanted to return home after 18 years to be with her children and granddaughter.
The agency nurse, 55, was sent to work at a hospital in Southport, Merseyside, and fell ill earlier this month.
The hospital trust said her husband described her as “my heroine.”
‘Very friendly’
Her friend and nursing partner, Cynthia Charles, said that Ms. Peter had been raised under the harsh apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s, but that she had struggled to maintain her education and obtain her nursing degree in 1998. .
She said she was “very friendly” and “very outgoing, bubbly” and “had a passion for care.”
Miss Charles, from Barking, East London, added: “Her children had returned to South Africa. She also planned to return, she only had one granddaughter and she wanted to return to support her family.”
Trish Armstrong-Child, executive director of Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, which manages Southport and the Formby District General Hospital where she died Saturday, said: “Thabo, Josephine’s husband, told me she was passionate, hardworking, that she always put others before herself. ” .
“She was ‘my heroine,’ he said.”
‘Extra mile’
James Lock, executive director of Altrix, the nursing agency he worked for, said: “Josephine was a diligent nurse who was greatly appreciated and appreciated by the team.”
Mrs. Peter, who was born in Tsakane, east of Johannesburg, is survived by her husband and daughter Buhle, 21, and her son, Bongani, 30.
An NHS recruitment campaign led her to come to the UK in 2002.
