Cork patient 'drowning from Covid' thanks CUH staff for saving her life

Bandon woman urges people to stay safe to avoid contracting serious illness from coronavirus

Covid-patient Emma O'Sullivan, in Cork University Hospital, and a healthy Emma on the right. Picture: Courtesy of RedFM

A patient of the Covid ward in Cork University Hospital (CUH) has urged the public to increase their vigilance after she found it so difficult to breathe that she thought she was going to suffocate.

Emma O'Sullivan, aged 49, said that the word "frontline" doesn't even begin to cover the efforts made by staff to stablise Covid patients who present at the hospital.