UAE expat was perfectly healthy until Covid gave him a heart attack

UAE expat was perfectly healthy until Covid gave him a heart attack

Sharjah resident Anu Mohanan couldn't thank God and his doctors enough for giving him what he calls 'a new lease of life'. From being a perfectly fit 40-year-old - with no pre-existing health conditions - Mohanan became a 'severely critical' Covid-19 patient.

He had to be put on a ventilator and suffered a heart attack. It was a narrow escape from death, he said. With all the bravery he could muster, the Indian expatriate soldiered on, fought the virus for 40 long days, and won.

Mohanan's ordeal started with recurring fever and some slight irritation in the chest, which was dismissed as bronchitis when he got checked at a hospital. His Covid tests repeatedly came out negative.

"My fever began on