He couldn t breathe and we had to suction blood out of his mouth : Frontline medic DR SALEYHA AHSAN reveals the horror of watching her father die of Covid while on compassionate leave from her own job treating intensive care patients with the disease
Dispatches: One Doctor s Story, Condition Critical airs on Channel 4 at 8pm
Dr Ahsan has documented her own hospital s fight against coronavirus in Wales
But the experience took a turn when her father became critically ill in London
She travelled to be by his side but he died of the disease shortly after Christmas
I ve seen so many Covid patients slowly suffocate – but I didn t expect it to happen to my own father telegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dispatches Conditional Critical shows reality of Covid frontline
An emergency medicine doctor shares what it is really like to be responsible for people s lives and health during a global pandemic
Channel 4 expose the reality of working on the front line during a medical pandemic (Image: Mirror Online/HDM/Yorkshire Air Ambulance)
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THE emergence of new strains of COVID-19 has prompted an Intensive Care Doctor and the Chief Constable of North Wales Police to urge the public to continue to follow government guidelines to keep themselves and their loved ones safe. The Kent strain, which has quickly become the dominant form of Coronavirus in Wales, and now the South African and Brazilian variant, mean it’s more important than ever that we all follow the government guidelines in place. Dr Saleyha Ahsan, an Intensive Care Doctor, sadly lost her father, Ahsan-ul-Haq Chaudry, aged 81, over the Christmas period after he contracted COVID-19. She said: “My dad was very fit and healthy for his age, he was a very outgoing man and loved socialising with his friends and family.