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Work in China’s COVID-19 epicentre and Australia’s bushfires helps mum bag NSW Nurse of Year award
After sleeping in a tent and working around-the-clock providing clinical care to bushfire-affected residents, Trish Lemin had barely arrived home when she was sent to the heart of the COVID-19 emergency in China.
Key points:
- Trish Lemin is a member of the AUSMAT team deployed for humanitarian responses around the region
- During the early part of 2020, Ms Lemin helped at a NSW bushfire field hospital, before being sent to Wuhan
- The three-week mission to China safely brought 273 Australians, including 68 children, home
It was February and the impacts were just starting to be felt around the world.
“I was only home less than a week when COVID was developing,” Ms Lemin said.
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