'I thought I would never wake up,' Belgian doctor says after surviving COVID-19

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A Belgian urologist has spoken of his 'incredible' experience, having survived COVID-19 and been discharged from intensive care after three weeks in a coma.

Belgian doctor Antoine Sassine, a urologist at Chirec Delta Hospital, who survived the coronavirus disease after 6 weeks in the intensive care unit and 3.5 weeks in a coma, reacts with members of the medical staff who took care of him, doctor Anne-Catherine Dandrifosse, doctor Matthieu Clanet and head of the intensive care Sophie Cran, at Chirec Delta Hospital in Brussels, Belgium, April 18, 2020.

“I was seeing my end,” Antoine Sassine said from his room at Brussels’ Delta Chirec hospital, where he used to work. “I thought I was going to die and would never wake up.”

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