Union Minister of State for Finance Dr Bhagwat Karad who is a pediatric surgeon helped a co passenger on a Delhi-Mumbai flight who suffered low blood pressure and complaimed of ueasiness an giddiness. Dr Karad immediately went to the passenger and helped him.’ In fact it was timely intervention of Dr Karad the passenger was saved.
Later Dr Karad said, I went to where this 45-year-old man was lying. I could not feel his pulse and sensed that he suffered from vasovagal syncome. He was between two rows of seats. I 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 we gave him glucose water. He did not have hypertension or sugar issues, and spoke to us after he regained consciousness”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has applauded the gesture of Union Minister Dr Bhagwat Karad after he helped a co-passenger who was feeling uneasy flight. In a tweet, Modi said, a doctor at heart, always. Great gesture by my colleague Dr Bhagwat Karad.
Karad studied in KEM hospital of Mumbai and later became a politician.
