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Zorro

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Fri Apr 10, 2020, 01:36 PM Apr 2020

Bhasha Mukherjee is a doctor who specializes in respiratory medicine. She's also Miss England.



Bhasha Mukherjee is a doctor who specializes in respiratory medicine. She’s also Miss England.

While doing humanitarian work in India last month, Mukherjee was staying attuned to news about the coronavirus pandemic.

As dire emails and text messages began to pour in from colleagues at Pilgrim Hospital in the eastern England town of Boston, Mukherjee, a recent medical school graduate, knew she had to get back.

“The situation was worsening back home and my colleagues needed help,” she said in an interview with The Post, adding that thousands of retired doctors had returned to work around the world because of the pandemic.

So on April 1, Mukherjee, 24, packed up her crown and gowns and flew home to Britain, where she is now in quarantine until early next week, when she reports for work at Pilgrim Hospital as a junior doctor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/04/10/miss-england-2019-is-reporting-hospital-duty-shes-respiratory-specialist/
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