Emergency trauma surgeon Charles Iliya has been working in the emergency department at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas for 30 years.
On March 12, he became ill and a week later, he was tested positive for coronavirus.
Iliya was admitted to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas where he works and his condition deteriorated after a few days.
His four children – Elizabeth, Paul, Catherine, and Peter Iliya – were told to say goodbye to Iliya over FaceTime and he was put in a medically induced coma on a ventilator three days after being admitted to the hospital.
Elizabeth told Good Morning America: “We were able to just tell him that we loved him and missed him so much and we were ready for him to come home.”
“When we were sitting there FaceTiming I didn’t know what I felt. I just wanted him to hear my voice.”
However, a week later, Iliya miraculously recovered after spending a week in a medically induced coma on a ventilator.
He was taken off the ventilator and was able to talk to his family.
Elizabeth said it was truly a miracle that he recovered and discharged from the hospital on April 11.
She thanked the doctors, nurses, and the hospital staff for taking care of her father and people like him amid coronavirus outbreak.
She said: “I’m so thankful for the doctors, the nurses, all the techs and therapists who risk their lives every day to protect their patients.”
Elizabeth said her father broke down in tears after being recovered and she has never seen him cry in her life.
After being discharged from the hospital, Iliya thanked the hospital staff and people who prayed for his recovery in a video.
He said he has given a second chance at life and he would make better use of it.
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