‘I survived 34 days on ECMO’: GP’s inspirational COVID-19 story
Dr Anushua Gupta (right) spent five months hospitalised in the UK and has written about her battle with COVID-19 to inspire other patients recovering from critical illnesses
Turning 40 is usually a time of celebration, but for Dr Anushua Gupta it marked the beginning of her long fight to survive COVID-19.
The UK-based GP spent 150 days in hospital and became one of the first COVID-19 patients accepted for venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
She spent nine days on mechanical ventilation and for 34 days was on full extracorporeal respiratory support.
“I have no recollection of my time on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, but liberation from it was not the end of my story,” she wrote on the one-year anniversary of becoming severely unwell .
