Beauty queen who was crowned Miss England in 2019 has returned to the United Kingdom to continue her career as a doctor amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Bhasha Mukherjee took a career break as a junior doctor after competing in the Miss World pageant in December 2019.
She has been involved bin some charity work prior to this, “I was invited to Africa, to Turkey, then to India, Pakistan and several other Asian countries to be an ambassador for various charity work,” she told CNN.
But as the coronavirus situation worsened back home in the UK, Mukherjee was getting messages from former colleagues at her old hospital, the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, eastern England, telling her how hard the situation was for them.
She then contacted the hospital’s management team to let them know that she wanted to return to work.
Bhasha Mukherjee was crowned Miss England in August 2019.She told CNN that it felt wrong to be wearing her Miss England crown, even for humanitarian work, while people around the world were dying from coronavirus and her colleagues were working so hard.
“When you are doing all this humanitarian work abroad, you’re still expected to put the crown on, get ready… look pretty.”
But, she added: “I wanted to come back home. I wanted to come and go straight to work.”
Mukherjee, who moved to the English city of Derby from Kolkata at the age of 9, said: “I felt a sense of this is what I’d got this degree for and what better time to be part of this particular sector than now.”
“It was incredible the way the whole world was celebrating all key workers, and I wanted to be one of those, and I knew I could help,” she said.
She returned to the UK on Wednesday after working with the British High Commission in Kolkata to find a flight from India to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to London.
“There’s no better time for me to be Miss England and helping England at a time of need,” she said.
Mukherjee is currently self-isolating for one to two weeks until she can return to work as a doctor at the Pilgrim Hospital.
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