British nurse suffers heart attack, falls into coma in Hungary

A British nurse, the fiancée of a Hungarian musician, has suffered a heart attack in Pécs. The incident happened on Easter Monday and the woman has been in a coma since then.

Ákos Hasznos, bassist, gave a concert in a nightclub in Pécs. The musician’s fiancée, Kerstie Metcalf, a British national, suddenly collapsed in the crowd, metropol.hu writes.

Kerstie suffered a heart attack in Pécs

51-year-old Kerstie Metcalf and her fiancé travelled to Hungary on Good Friday. They came to visit the man’s family in Pécs. On Easter Monday, after an enjoyable family weekend, the man gave a concert at a nightclub in the town. During the performance, Kerstie fell ill and collapsed in the crowd. Her heart had stopped.

The woman was resuscitated and taken to a nearby hospital. “She has been in the hospital for the last 12 days in a ‘coma-like state’ after her brain was starved of oxygen,” walesonline.co.uk reports.

She’s disabled herself but she remained working during the pandemic to save lives

A nurse in England, her job wanted to exempt her from her work during the COVID pandemic because of her specific underlying condition. However, Kerstie refused to stay at home. She said that at a time like this, she could not stand by and let others work for her, and that it was her duty to help.

The woman had a heart attack at the concert and had to be resuscitated on the spot by the paramedics. The resulting complications led to an epileptic seizure. After successful resuscitation, she was taken to the Pécs clinic where she was put into an induced coma.