CJMYMiss England 2019 Bhasha Mukherjee returns to her job as a junior doctor during the coronavirus outbreak. The 24-year-old will start work at Boston Pilgrim Hospital, Lincolnshire next week.
The respiratory specialist was in India as part of charity work across Asian countries. She will be to returning to the NHS after seeing the unfolding crisis in the UK.
Currently, Bhasha is self-isolating in her home city of Derby, which is around 80 miles from the hospital. She is also sorting the logistical issues of her return to work such as where she’ll be living and her work shift.
The NHS is asking recently retired doctors and nurses to come back to work due to rising cases of Covid-19 in the UK.
“I could not be prouder to be both Miss England and to serve something of great national pride like the NHS. I felt unfair getting dressed up in a place of safety while my colleagues were laying their lives on the frontline. What better way to represent Miss England than serving your country at a time like this.” she said.
Bhasha also knows the health risks of returning to the wards but is not worried about contracting Covid-19 in the hospital.
“I could have caught it anytime or anywhere. I could have picked it up at any airport or while I was in India” she says.
Bhasha was crowned Miss England in August 2019, shortly after gaining two medical degrees from the University of Nottingham.
She spent time training as a junior doctor at a respiratory ward and was modelling and taking part in pageants at the same time.
In October last year, she took a career break to compete in Miss World in London, before heading off on the foreign charity trip.
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