Left for dead

A BRAVE woman has broken a five-year silence to speak of a brutal knife attack in the hope it might help in the fight to save Worthing Hospital.

Manoosh Shoai, from Goring, has tried to forget about the night she was stabbed seven times on her doorstep after returning home from work in November, 2001.

However, after seeing the Herald's coverage of the possible closure of Worthing Hospital, she felt compelled to tell how "amazing staff" saved her life.

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The tearful 60-year-old psychologist said to close the hospital would be a "disaster".

"There is no way people like myself can survive in the future without it," she said. "It is a miracle I am alive and it couldn't have happened without Worthing Hospital.

"The blood was pouring out like a river and the nurses said I was half dead when I arrived at hospital. If I'd had to go somewhere else I would be dead.

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