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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Health
Andrew Brown & John Scheerhout

Dad's heartbreaking last text to wife before his heart stopped for 17 minutes

A father sent a text to his wife asking her to 'look after my kids' before his heart stopped for 17 minutes.

Andrew Mikhail, who owns a string of bars in Southport, spent six months seriously ill in Wigan Hospital after contracting coronavirus.

After 16 days in hospital, he had to be placed on a ventilator and he believed he would die. He sent text messages to his wife Vicky and business partner Rob Ashcroft saying 'look after my kids'.

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