British couple return to Vietnam after three years of COVID-19 infection
VOV.VN - A British couple on March 8 returned to Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases to thank doctors for saving them from the coronavirus three years ago.
At the intensive care unit, Shan Coralie Barker (COVID-19 patient No. 24) and her husband Dixon John Garth (patient No. 28) were moved to meet again doctors and nurses who took care of them during their COVID-19 infection in Vietnam.
After a two-hour talk, the couple gave the doctors and nurses a book of more than 100 pages telling about their own journey during the time when they were in hospital and saved by Vietnamese doctors and nurses.
In early March 2020 Barker and her husband came to visit their son in Vietnam from the UK. Unfortunately, they tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus before they could meet him. They were both transferred to National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi for treatment.
Baker recovered from the disease, but her husband suffered from respiratory failure, requiring mechanical ventilation. The 74-year-old patient with a 10-year history of blood cancer had to fight for the life and finally won the battle after more than a month in hospital.
Garth was discharged from hospital on April 13, 2020, and the couple flew directly to their hometown in the UK the following day.
Baker told doctors that the hospital is their first stopover during their tour of Vietnam this time. She said they would visit Vietnam’s scenic spots they missed due to COVID-19 in 2020.