A man who looked after Covid patients in their final moments in hospital has received a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, r
A man who looked after Covid patients in their final moments in hospital has received a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, reported BBC. Alex Griffiths, 22, had started an apprenticeship at Dudley’s Russell Hall Hospital when the pandemic began. With visitors stopped from going into the building, he cared for critically ill patients which he said was “a shock to the system” and “draining”. Getting the honour is “just overwhelming”, Mr Griffiths said. His experience in caring started from a young age when, aged five, he become the principal carer for his mother who has multiple sclerosis. From his teens, he also cared for his grandparents as his grandmother was a double amputee and his grandfather suffered a series of strokes and kidney failure, reported BBC.
The early experience of caring made him “200% convinced I was put on the planet to look after people” and he started the apprenticeship. While Covid “was a real eye opener”, Mr Griffiths, from Brierley Hill, said he kept trying to be positive for the patients as “you just need that spark of hope”. He started studying for a degree in nursing and also volunteered to support the rollout of the vaccine programme in his area. When he opened the letter about the BEM he said he could not believe it and still believes “at some point someone is going to jump out with a bunch of cameras”, as reported by BBC.
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