Nigerian Nurse, Eyitolami Olaolorun, 60, Dies Of COVID-19 In UK

A  60-year old mother of four graduate children  and Nurse, Eyitolami Olaolorun, has died in the United Kingdom after catching Coronavirus. 

Olaolorun had been a nurse for 40 years, most recently working at Wellington Hospital, a private centre in St John’s Wood,in the United Kingdom,  caring for young patients who were critically or terminally ill.

According to The Mail, Olaolorun  also worked for the NHS at various hospitals and raised her four children by herself, having arrived in the UK from Nigeria almost 20 years ago after splitting with her husband.

Oyinkansola Honey Iloba described her mother, who died on April 16, as ‘selfless and ‘an exceptional woman’.

‘She didn’t see her patients as just someone she was looking after, they were family,’ the 32-year-old said.

‘There’s a picture of one of her patients on her wall. He’s pretty much our adopted younger brother because of how she saw him.

‘She would spend Christmas with us and then spend it with her patients too, and always remembered birthdays.

‘She raised all four of us by herself. We’re all graduates, we’re all doing well. That’s all because of her, she sacrificed everything for us.’

After the death of her mother, Mrs Iloba said: ‘Stay home. When it hits home, you realise how dangerous the situation is.”