REJIMON K
Sajeesh P, husband of Lini Puthussery, the Kerala nurse who died while treating Nipah patients, has been given a job by the Kerala government.
A order of posting Sajeesh as a Lower División Clerk under the health department in Kozhikode has been issued by the government.
Sajeesh was working as an accountant in Bahrain.
Lini died on May 21 after being infected by a patient, whom she treated initially at the Perambra Taluk hospital, where she was a nurse.
The World Health Organisation has also paid glowing tributes to Lini.
A 28-year-old mother of two young boys, Lini died at the Kozhikode Medical college hospital days after being infected.
The young nurse in a poignant letter scribbled from her deathbed to her husband Sajeesh, had said “I am almost on the way. I don’t think I can meet you again….”
The letter had evoked an emotional response from across the world after it went viral on the social media.
The Kerala government had also offered financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh each to her sons aged five and two.
Nipah virus claimed 17 lives in the state.
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