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Emergency doctors in Dubai have saved the life of a woman who had multiple blood clots in her lower body.
The 47-year-old patient, from Ghana, was rushed to Al Tadawi Speciality Hospital on September 14 with severe chest pain and fever.
The situation was critical, said Dr Saher Arour, consultant vascular surgery at the hospital.
“She was suffering from symptoms for a couple of days. She had hypoxaemia [low levels of oxygen in the blood] and swelling in her lower body,” said Dr Arour.
Deadly discovery
He said medics rapidly discovered that multiple blood clots were blocking vital arteries in…
