Thanks to Jenny from Invercargill

The Herald reports:

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has thanked a New Zealand nurse – Jenny from Invercargill – for saving his life.

He listed a number of the frontline staff who cared for him during his week-long stay at St Thomas’ Hospital in London but singled out two nurses who stood by his bedside for 48 hours “when things could have gone either way”.

The Prime Minister said Jenny from Invercargill “to be exact”, and Luis from Portugal, were the reason that “in the end, my body did start to get enough oxygen”.

“Because for every second of the night they were watching and they were thinking and they were caring and making the interventions I needed,” he said.

“So that is how I also know that across this country, 24 hours a day, for every second of every hour, there are hundreds of thousands of NHS staff who are acting with the same care and thought and precision as Jenny and Luis.”

Well done Jenny from Invercargill.

I say once this is over we make Jenny our lead negotiator for a free trade deal with the UK, because how can Boris say no to her after this 🙂

More seriously this does show how London especially is a global city with people from all around the world working there. The UK can now set its own immigration policy again. Hopefully they will continue to value Kiwis and others with valuable skills.