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You’re all our heroes!

‘I stepped in on the front line’

Ali Harris, 51, Hertfordshire

I don’t know why, but my hand flew into the air.

‘I’ll work tomorrow night,’ I volunteered.

It was March 2020 and I was at a meeting at the hospital where I was a senior operating department practitioner.

I usually worked in a day surgery, but COVID-19 patients were already filling ICU and there weren’t enough nurses.

Reality was hitting.

Run for the hills, my sister jokingly texted when I told her.

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