Sister of nurse who died with Covid-19 'nearly sectioned with grief'

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A woman has told of how her grief over her sister's death almost lead to her being sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Brave nurse Areema Nasreen tragically died with Covid-19 in April 2020, just mere weeks into the first lockdown.

Birmingham Live reports the mum-of-three passed away from the virus at Walsall Manor Hospital in Walsall on April 3 - the very hospital where she worked for 16 years.

In the aftermath of her death, the frontline medical professional was described as an 'absolute heroine' by journalist and TV presenter Piers Morgan, and described as an 'utterly devoted and selfless' nurse by both colleagues and patients.Now her sister, Kazeema Afzal, has revealed she was almost sectioned as the grief and heartbreak over her death became overwhelming.The support worker, who is training to become a nurse in her sister's honour, went back to work on the same ward as her sister just a month after her death.The 35-year-old said: "It all calmed down and people stopped talking about her.

It became too much. I had to be moved to another ward because I almost got sectioned while on shift."My mental health was so bad that I didn't know what I was doing.