PETALING JAYA: An Ipoh-born nurse in Britain who made a “miraculous” recovery from Covid-19, has shared that he was in a coma for 43 days at one point.
Felix Khor, 68, was admitted to the Southend Hospital at the height of the lockdown in the United Kingdom and spent 43 days on a ventilator in the intensive care unit of the public hospital where he had worked for more than 15 years.
“On the last day of March, I was working at the emergency department. There were a lot of people on that day. “The consultant doctor said that I could have contracted Covid-19, which at that point was a new disease, ” he said, adding that he was told to go home and rest and take some medicine.“By the time I reach the emergency room, I become drowsy and unconscious. They put me on a ventilator and I was in a coma for 43 days, ” he said.“And when I got gradually better, they sent me to the respiratory unit, ” he said.
He admitted that he was feeling suicidal but it was not long before he managed to talk to a psychiatrist. After that, Khor was determined to overcome all the challenges and to persevere to recover from his condition.
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