Devastated NHS worker gets stranded abroad as she desperately tries to help with UK coronavirus fight
A BRITISH radiographer desperately trying to get home and help the NHS battle coronavirus has been left stranded in the Philippines -Jessica Millican spent the last three months training as a free-diving instructor on Panglao Island, Bohol, before planning to return home and work in an NHS hospital.
"On Tuesday the Governor of Bohol, Arthur Yap, announced a lockdown on the island, ordering people to stay inside and only letting them out to buy food and medicine, visit hospitals and banks. Jessica, who has a degree in Radiography from University of Hertfordshire, worked in an NHS hospital for a year before flying to Asia to work as a diving instructor.
But on Monday afternoon, three days before her flight, Jessica got a message from a friend who she was supposed to be travelling with, saying that all Emirates flights had been cancelled from Cebu from the 25th onwards. But Tory MP Caroline Nokes said it was "empty words" for many Brits - who faced airport closures, cancelled flights and had already been trying to get home for up to two weeks.
She said: "Even though the country didn’t enforce lockdown until Tuesday, there was just a curfew, we were as good as in a lockdown as we couldn’t go anywhere. Bohol Governor, Arthur Yap, recently extended the quarantine and curfew until April 12. Tourists and residents aren't allowed to leave their accommodation from 9pm to 5am under the rules.She said: "To travel to Cebu airport, which is where we would fly home from, I need to get a private taxi for two hours to Tubigon, then a ferry for an hour to Cebu before waiting there to catch my flight.
"But during the medical exam, the nurses don’t do any tests or take your temperature, all they do is write down your details. It’s really worrying.
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