A Rutland man has praised the NHS after pioneering trials for COVID treatments helped saved his life
he was seriously ill last year
A Rutland man who was involved in pioneering trials for new live saving COVID treatments say he’s humbled to have received the care he did.
61-year-old Stephen Gannon caught the virus in November and quickly became seriously ill.
In a last-ditch attempt to save his life he was put on the experimental drug dexamethasone which – thanks to trials – is now a known treatment of severe COVID-19.
Stephen says the care he received was second to none "Without over-emphasising it - I'd left home thinking I might not be coming back and certainly that was the view of my loved ones. So I thought absolutely why not. It seemed like an easy decision really"
"The professor was great - he said you're in for a pretty tough ride. First of all it was the standard oxygen mask that goes over your face and the the oxygen mask into my nostrils. Then they put me on two trials the recovery trial and the recovery RS trial"
Meanwhile NHS England says using Dexamethasone to treat coronavirus patients may have saved a million lives around the world.
Around 22,000 deaths are said to have been prevented with its use in the UK alone.