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Mary Agyapong’s GoFundMe campaign explained: NHS nurse’s family yet to get funds
The BBC has reported that the family of Mary Agyapong is yet to receive any money raised from GoFundMe’s campaign, which was created last year.
Pregnant NHS nurse Mary Agyapong passed away at Luton and Dunstable Hospital after giving birth to her daughter in April 2020.
A GoFundMe page was created by family friend Rhoda Asiedu after the nurse’s death to support her baby daughter and family.
The campaign raised more than £186,000 for Mary, although reports now say that the family are yet to receive the donations.
Mary Agyapong’s widower yet to receive money from GoFundMe
NURSE MARY Agyapong’s husband has not yet received any money from her GoFundMe page, according to the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
The 28-year-old pregnant nurse died from COVID-19 after giving birth in April 2020. Previously, she had worked at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital.
Family friend Rhoda Assiedu Darfoor set up the fundraising page which raised over £186,000.
Agyapong’s family were named as beneficiaries in the fundraising campaign, which was created on April 15, 2020.
Blue Trinity legal team are a firm of solicitors instructed by Darfoor, who set up the GoFundMe campaign.
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Unite representative Ameera Sheikh, an intensive care nurse, said Government support shown earlier in the pandemic now felt fake .
She said: We have treated people from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds to quite literally the leader of the country [Boris Johnson]. We have sacrificed so much and that includes moving out of our family homes to live close to the hospital and in isolation. We are facing an increasingly dangerous workload in intensive care.
And few were impressed with claims that they had received a 12 percent pay rise over the last three years and their average salary was around £34,000.
Nurse Kelly Robbins, who works in Brighton, said: We listen to them on TV and they are lying. It s just painful and really debilitating to hear them say that.