Team News Riveting
Mumbai, November 16
Union Minister Bhagwat Karad, a paediatrician by qualification, on Tuesday helped a co-passenger who was feeling uneasy on a Delhi-Mumbai IndiGo flight.
The Minister of State for Finance was flying from Delhi to Mumbai on Tuesday and was seated on 1F seat. The air hostess announced on the public address system asking for a doctor on board as one passenger fainted.
Karad, a paediatric surgeon who studied in KEM hospital of Mumbai, rushed to the help where the person, aged about 45, was lying. The passenger complained of giddiness mid-air due to a blood pressure issue.
The Minister said he could not feel his pulse and sensed that he suffered from vasovagal syncope, a condition that leads to fainting in some people. He was between two rows of seats. Karad removed his shirt and massaged his chest and kept his feet on a pillow so that blood could flow to his heart.
Soon he regained consciousness and then he was given him glucose water.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the Union minister’s gesture. “A doctor at heart, always! Great gesture by my colleague,” PM Modi tweeted.
