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An NHS doctor watched his mother’s funeral on a Zoom video conference after she passed away fromDr Robert Baskind, a consultant psychiatrist for the NHS in Leeds, was unable to visit his 74-year-old mother, Sue Baskind, once she began to display symptoms of Covid-19 and was admitted to hospital last Monday.
Dr Baskind did manage to speak to his mother on the phone before she died on Friday evening, but her symptoms made it difficult for her to have a conversation as she struggled to breathe.Her funeral was held on Sunday but Dr Baskind, along with his wife and his father, who is also self-isolating, were unable to attend in person.‘My mum was a very active, fit lady, very hospitable, welcoming, beautiful lady,’ Dr Baskind said in an interview with Sky News.
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