Dr. Hilary Jones helped to save Derek Draper's life after receiving a haunting phonecall from Kate Garraway.
The celebrity GP opened up on the 'haunting' call he had with 53-year-old Kate after her husband began to display coronavirus symptoms..
Speaking on Good Morning Britain this morning, Dr. Hilary recalled how he felt when the panicked former I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! finalist reached out to him for emergency advise.
After trying and failing to get in contact with emergency services for hours on end, TV personality Kate called up her friend Hilary to diagnose her husband's worrying symptoms.
Derek, 52, had been incredibly short of breath and had been feeling extremely unwell for a number of days.
After hearing his symptoms, Dr. Hilary urged Kate to put down the phone and call an ambulance immediately.
This was due to the fact that her husband was displaying 'unusual' coronavirus symptoms.
Initially a cough and a fever were the only key symptoms people were warned to look out for - neither of which Derek had.
However worried about Derek as he continued to deteriorate, Kate called her friend to confirm what was happening and asked whether or not to ring an ambulance.
Opening up about the worried call, Dr. Hilary admitted that he actually spoke to Derek on phone before he was rushed to hospital where he has remained in a serious condition for the past ten weeks.
Concerned about how breathless Derek sounded on the phone, Dr. Hilary urged him to take a simple test.
Afterwards, he urged himself and Kate to go to the hospital immedietly.
Dr. Hilary explained the ordeal on Good Morning Britain when he explained: "I had spoken to Derek and I was concerned.
"I was really concerned just by the way he was speaking and his breathlessness and I told him to do a simple test, not a diagnostic test.
"All I asked him to do was hold his breath and see how long he could hold it for, and it was less than 10 seconds.
"I said 'Okay look, now is the time to call an ambulance' and this was when he was admitted."
Hilary continued by explaining that being able to hold your breath for a mere 10 seconds is 'abnormal'.
"You and I could hold our breath for over a minute, [someone of his age] should be able to last a minute I would say if you are fit and well, and 10 seconds was abnormal, and while it was not a diagnostic test anyway it was a reason to get him to hospital straight away."
It comes as Kate made a tearful return to Good Morning Britain on Friday, as she gave a live update on her husband's battle with Covid-19.
She spoke to Ben Shepherd and Ranvir Singh for the first time in 10 weeks, after she stepped back from her role on the show following Derek admittance to hospital.
He has been in a coma in intensive care and Kate admitted that he may stay in that condition "for up to a year," as she shared the heartbreaking diagnosis.
Getting down to details of her husband's condition, Kate admitted: "Derek's situation is incredibly rare. The damage he’s sustained and we don't know the affect on his body and if he can recover and how he would recover.
"Some of the damage he’s got, he’s only one in five people they’ve seen with it."
Her brave appearance has been met with much admiration and love from fans all across the nation.
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