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The daughter of a frontline healthcare worker who died on Christmas Eve from Covid-19 is urging the public to take the virus seriously.
Mariter Tarugo, a 60-year-old native of the Philippines, who lived in Dalkey, worked in the St. Andrew’s ward of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.
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She tragically died on Christmas Eve a week after being admitted to her workplace as a patient after contracting the killer virus.
Daughter Nice Marie Tarugo, who worked alongside her mother as a health assistant at the same hospital, described her passing as a “life-changing” for her family and said it was difficult to accept that people are not taking the virus in I laughed.
She said: “It’s hard to accept the fact that people don’t take it too seriously. It affects many families. It’s life changing. ”
The 32-year-old only daughter said her mother had been concerned about contracting Covid-19 and spreading it to her family, but said she was a dedicated worker who loved her job.
She told RTE News: “She is the type of person who never really stops working, does not even know how to call to report that she is sick, even though she feels very sick or tired, she is the type of person who keeps going.”
PLANNED TRIP HOME
The mother and daughter, who were supposed to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas, had plans to celebrate the New Year along with some karaoke and food and hoped for a better year in 2021.
Both had also booked the same annual vacation for the end of this year in hopes of being able to revisit their family in the Philippines, as they had not been to their home country in several years.
The devastated daughter said: “We were supposed to be working on December 24 and 25 for Christmas. So we decided to have a plan for New Years, have a karaoke and eat some.
“We were looking forward to 2021 because we were planning to go home because it is my dad’s 70th birthday. So we decided to have the same annual vacation and go home to the Philippines. “
Nice Marie added that she was proud of her mother and said it was unfortunate that she died from the virus just days before healthcare workers started getting the vaccine here.
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Martier, who moved to Ireland when she was 40 in 2000, died at 2 a.m. on Christmas Eve with her daughter and husband Nicolas by her bed.
Her funeral was on New Year’s Eve and her devastated husband had to watch from a car as he had also contracted the virus.
Nice Marie said her mother was part of a group of “pioneer workers” who came here from the Philippines to work in the health services.
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