A 64-year-old home nurse died while rescuing her patient with paraplegia from a house fire in Louisiana, USA.
Paraplegia is a “complete or partial paralysis of the lower half of the body,” as described by the Winchester Hospital.
Gwendolyn Theus rushed to her 71-year-old female patient’s room when the house started to catch fire on Nov. 23. Theus tried to wheel the woman’s bed out, but was unsuccessful, as per the Louisiana Office of State Fire Mashal’s Facebook post on Nov. 25.
The nurse then pulled the patient from the bed and tried to push her out of a nearby window. However, Theus was overpowered by smoke before she could get the woman out of the burning house.
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