NRI dies at Mumbai airport, family alleges negligence

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Posted online: Thursday , January 24, 2008 at 11:53:06
Updated: Thursday , January 24, 2008 at 12:09:22

An elderly NRI passenger died at the city airport soon after arriving on a Malaysian Airlines flight, officials said on Thursday.

The 69-year-old passenger, identified as Girdharimal Jagjivan, arrived on Wednesday night and had cleared immigration when he collapsed, a spokesperson for the Mumbai International Airport Limited said.

Family members alleged medical negligence on part of the airport, a charge which was denied by the airport authorities, who said all possible treatment had been provided to the passenger.

However, custom officials said that they called a doctor present at the airport at about 11:15 pm and also a co-passenger, who was a doctor, to provide him treatment.

"Our doctor provided the patient with CPR and medical treatment but there was no response. The patient was then taken out to a waiting ambulance where he was administered treatment again but he did not respond after which he was declared dead," he said.

Jagjivan's wife had told the doctor at the airport that her husband was suffering from hypertension and had not taken his prescribed medication that day, which could have been the cause of the incident, the spokesperson said.

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