Covid 19 has not spared Mauritius since the World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Despite being ‘Covid safe‘ for a certain period, the virus has had an outburst in Mauritius since the beginning of this year. With the New Variant; more than 20,000 people have been infected with more than 240 deaths.
Many of those deaths are our soldiers from the medical field, who are fighting against the virus day and night in difficult conditions. Today, we are crying the death of another front liner, Umma Lallchand, 43 years, who has not been spared by the pandemic. On Saturday night, this resident of Bon Accueil died in the hospital Bruno Cheong in Flacq where she was previously posted.
Umma Lallchand, who was assigned to the neonatal intensive care unit of Bruno Cheong Hospital, was part of the team of nurses who took care of little Marie-Cléanne Papillon, who had to be separated from her Siamese twin by surgery in India, in March 2019.
According to her brother, Rakesh Tetaree, Umma was recently posted at ENT Hospital where she contracted the virus. She was fully vaccinated and did not suffer from any disease. However, her brother revealed that her death was attributed to pneumonia and obesity, which the family finds unacceptable. Umma was a very active, kind, and well-appreciated person, according to her relatives. She devoted herself soul and body to her work.
Leaving behind her, two adolescents, a girl and a boy, aged 13 and 14 respectively. Her funeral took place today, Sunday 5th December 2021.
