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Introducing 'Gimba - The Ward Host', the fifth in a series of telephone calls that The Duchess of Cambridge held with participants from the Hold Still Project.
During the peak of the pandemic, Hassan Akkad signed up to work as a cleaner in a Covid-19 ward at his local hospital, Whipps Cross. Within days, Gimba, the ward host, and Hassan had formed a close bond. Gimba, who migrated from Nigeria to Britain, had been working at the hospital for over a decade. On the day the photograph was taken, Gimba had received terrible news from Nigeria, her mother had fallen ill and had been rushed to hospital. Gimba was heartbroken that she couldn't be there, however she declined to take any time off, saying: 'I have to feed my patients’.
Hassan took this photo while Gimba was having her favourite lunch of chicken and rice in the staff room, after having prepared meals for all eighteen COVID-19 patients in their ward.
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Introducing 'Gimba - The Ward Host', the fifth in a series of telephone calls that The Duchess of Cambridge held with participants from the Hold Still Project.
During the peak of the pandemic, Hassan Akkad signed up to work as a cleaner in a Covid-19 ward at his local hospital, Whipps Cross. Within days, Gimba, the ward host, and Hassan had formed a close bond. Gimba, who migrated from Nigeria to Britain, had been working at the hospital for over a decade. On the day the photograph was taken, Gimba had received terrible news from Nigeria, her mother had fallen ill and had been rushed to hospital. Gimba was heartbroken that she couldn't be there, however she declined to take any time off, saying: 'I have to feed my patients’.
Hassan took this photo while Gimba was having her favourite lunch of chicken and rice in the staff room, after having prepared meals for all eighteen COVID-19 patients in their ward.
#HoldStill2020 #HoldStill #NationalPortraitGallery
