Staff applaud as first Morriston Hospital coronavirus patients leave intensive care

The first two Covid-19 patients have been discharged from intensive care at Swansea's Morriston Hospital.

The video shows hospital workers applauding 73-year-old Danny Egan and 48-year-old charge nurse David Courtney-Williams as they are pushed out of the intensive care unit.

Retired service engineer Danny, from Port Talbot, said he remembers very little of the past few weeks but was full of praise for the staff.

As he left the hospital, he said, "We went out, my son’s birthday, and the next thing I was waking up in a ward and I didn’t have any socks on and people were trying to tell me to move my feet and I thought, ‘How can I move my feet? Where am I?’"

anny Egan applauds staff as they clap him out of Morriston Hospital following his recovery from coronavirus. Credit: Swansea Bay University Health Board

Mr Egan said: “I don’t know what the top team is in anybody’s eyes football-wise, but this has got to be it for rebuilding people. I think they could even put a chain on your bike.”

When asked what he’d do first on leaving hospital he replied: “Give my wife a kiss!”

David Courtney-Williams is a charge nurse at Singleton Hospital. Credit: Swansea Bay University Health Board

Ward H sister Kirsty Hopkins said: “They were extremely unwell and were ventilated for quite a while in ITU (intensive care)."

She added: "It has been amazing to see them recover and being discharged."

Morriston Hospital’s nurse director Mark Madams said the discharges lifted the spirits of staff who have seen tough times.

“Obviously there have been some very sad outcomes. All of the clinical teams really feel each and every one of them.

"Our staff have worked incredibly hard supporting every patient with Coronavirus here at Morriston Hospital and all the families who couldn’t visit,” he said.

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