🇬🇧 16 y.o. Areeb Khan from Chadwell Heath #UnitedKingdom has been nominated for a Young Citizen award after sharing her battle on life support due to Covid to encourage others to get vaccinated. #TheySurvivedCovid ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/areeb-kha… 
"Areeb was taken to King George Hospital after collapsing and first suffering Covid symptoms in July."
"Her oxygen levels were below half and her parents were told she was critically ill and would have to be transferred to Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge for treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation - described as a "last hope" for Covid patients."
Areeb said: "Hope was very low. I started responding and was taken off the machine, but then I became very poorly and had to go back on it."
She was moved to Queen's Hospital, Romford in October and is re-learning skills such as walking, which she is having to do with support.
“I was given a 50/50 chance of survival, which was very hard for my family.
"I’ve been in hospital so long, I just want to do normal things."
“I was given a 50/50 chance of survival, which was very hard for my family.
"I’ve been in hospital so long, I just want to do normal things."
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