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HIV hospital that Princess Diana visited now treating homeless coronavirus patients

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An HIV hospital famously visited by Princess Diana during the Aids epidemic has transformed itself into a medical centre for homeless people who have suffered from Covid-19.

On February 24, 1989, the Princess of Wales visited Mildmay Mission Hospital in east London for the first of 17 times and shook the hand of a patient who had agreed to meet her.

In a year when the virus had infected 400,000 people across the world but was still poorly understood, Diana's act of empathy was credited with changing the attitude towards Aids sufferers overnight.

Despite the more recent public support of her son Prince Harry, Mildmay has fallen on difficult times in recent years due to a fall in referrals.

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