Woman, 78, Last Polio Survivor Living In Iron Lung, Passes Away After Machine Becomes Too Old To Repair

of them could get up to 21 pounds, which is what I needed to breathe. So they just weren’t effective.”

Last year, when a tornado knocked out power to her home, her husband, Baha Salh, kept her alive by performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until emergency crews arrived.

According to her d*ath certificate, she passed away on June 26 from chronic pulmonary continue reading …