Sheeba Anish, the 34-year-old nurse became a “Good Samaritan” by saving the life of her co-passenger in a bus by using the immediate life saving medical methods.

Sheeba from Kochi in Kerala who work as nurse in Apollo Adlux hospital in Kochi was on her way home after duty and boarded the bus at 9.10 pm.

After travelling for about 10 minutes, when the bus reached Elavoor Kavala, she felt person standing beind her touched her shoulder, and suddenly the person collapsed.

People panicked when the 24-year-old Vishnu, suddenly fell unconscious. The bus was still moving, and there was not too much of a rush inside. After he collapsed, he lay quite still and started to foam from the mouth. Saliva and slight secretions of blood too came out of his mouth and nose.

Sheeba detected his pulse dropping, sensed the things would quickly turn to worse. She requested the KSRTC driver to stop the vehicle at the nearest hospital. However, he did not over the heavy traffic on the road.

Shiba, immediately called up the hospital to for an ambulance. “Since his pulse was dropping quickly, I decided to give him CPR. After two rounds of CPR, he regained consciousness and was able to sit upright. He was later taken to the Angamaly Government Hospital.”

“If there was any delay, it would have been difficult to bring him back to life,” she said.
Sheeba is the kind of hero we need. Her timely intervention and prompt response to the situation helped save a life,” said the Apollo Hospital authorities.