Coronavirus: Off-duty nurse helps man after car crash
An off-duty nurse has described how she spent five hours in A&E with an elderly man suspected of having coronavirus after he crashed into her car.
Lucy Duncan, 24, was driving home from a 12-hour shift at Wigan hospital when her car was hit by another vehicle.The 24-year-old called an ambulance and then went with him to hospital to comfort him. "The man was so grateful that I stayed with him and kept squeezing my hand and pulling it close to him," Ms Duncan said.Ms Duncan had been returning from her seventh shift in a row at about 19:45 GMT on Thursday when the crash happened in Abram."He was grey and sweating, and struggling to breathe - he looked really ill."The man, believed to be in his 70s, told her he had been in isolation for more than a week but had been forced to leave his home to buy food.
"So I called an ambulance and followed him in my own car, and stayed with him for five hours wearing full PPE," she said. "I don't think I did anything out of the ordinary but a lot of people have told me they wouldn't have done it.
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