A WOMAN who gave vital CPR to a man found collapsed and bleeding in the street has been praised by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service for her lifesaving actions.
Joanna Stephens, 43, was on her way to work at Greenacre school when her daughter ran to tell her someone had collapsed on Ballfield Lane, Kexborough.
That man was Paul Lindley, a close family friend, whose heart had suddenly stopped.
Paul, 66, who lives on the estate, remains in a critical condition in hospital and is thought to have sustained a massive heart attack and injured his head after falling to the ground last Friday.
Teaching assistant Joanna said he was ‘dead’ when she found him and gave him CPR for about 20 minutes, refusing to give up.
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