Two off-duty nurses saved their neighbour's life when she suffered a heart attack after a visit to the gym. Jo Melarangi had been feeling unwell after arriving back home.
As reported by StokeonTrentLive, husband John asked his neighbours Andy and Jenny Weedall - both senior nurses - if they could check on the 51-year-old. Shortly after they arrived Jo went into cardiac arrest and CPR was started immediately.
Jo was successfully resuscitated after 15 minutes and was breathing by herself when the paramedics arrived. She was taken straight to hospital and two coronary stents were fitted.
She is now making a good recovery. And she described her neighbours as her 'guardian angels'.
Jo, from Alsager in Stoke, said: "Thank you so much to Andy and Jenny for saving my life. They are my guardian angels. Without them I wouldn't be here, it's as simple as that."
Andy, a senior nurse on SSCU (Surgical Special Care Unit) and Jenny, a senior nurse on A&E, both work at Royal Stoke University Hospital and received a Chief Executive Award for their actions. Tracy Bullock, UHNM Chief Executive, said: "It was an incredibly emotional to hand out the Chief Executive Award to Andy and Jenny.
"It makes me feel very proud of the skill and the talent of the staff that we have got in our organisation. To see the outcome of that and to meet Jo and her family was fantastic. Credit to Andy and Jenny for successfully resuscitating Jo and it is great to see she is on the road to recovery."
Andy said: "Receiving this award makes us proud to be a nurse, we feel very honoured to receive an award for doing something that is now second nature to us. We have been trained to such a high standard and Jo being here today is proof of the skills we as nurses possess."
