Her mother died in hospital, alone.
A Newtownabbey woman, who lost her mother to the coronavirus, will travel to London next week to give evidence at a public hearing of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
“My mummy was such a lively wee woman who deserves so much more. She was the heart of our family. She was a character, my mummy said that as it was,” Ms Doherty said earlier this month. “I believe that my mum and everybody else who passed away to Covid and all those people who didn’t get their necessary treatments, because of Covid, and the management or mismanagement of the pandemic have been left really, really vulnerable,” she said.
In the past week, the Inquiry has heard from a range of witnesses from Northern Ireland – including former First Minister Baroness Arlene Foster and former deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill along with former Health Minister Robin Swann and Chief Medical Officer, Sir Michael McBride. Members of the NICBFJ group will gather at The Resolution Centre in Belfast on the day to watch the livestream of Ms Doherty’s evidence during Day 22 of the public hearings into ‘Module 1: Resilience and Preparedness’ of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
Conal McGarrity, Director of PA Duffy and Co Solicitors, who acts for NICBFJ, said: “Since the beginning of the Inquiry, and indeed before its commencement, we have stressed the importance of the voices of bereaved families being at the centre of the Inquiry’s work.
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