BRAVO: Delhi- based Doctor Couple save Woman in Respiratory Distress Mid-Air
Delhi: A mid-air miracle was recently witnessed in a routine flight after a Delhi-based doctor couple revived a woman who accidentally aspirated a gummy bear and went into respiratory distress. The incident took place this past week.
A 78-year-old woman, identified as Preetpal Kaur was on board an Air India flight from Delhi to London when a gummy bear got lodged in her windpipe. Luckily for her, a doctor couple was present in the flight that came to her rescue while she was on the verge of choking to death.
Speaking to TOI over the phone from London, Dr Anupam Goel and Dr Misha, the doctor couple who work at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital said, “We were travelling to London to attend a conference on endoscopic surgery. Midway, there was an announcement about this woman collapsing suddenly and the need for a doctor. We volunteered to help,” Goel said.
The cause of respiratory distress wasn’t clear initially, the doctors said. The woman was unconscious and frothing from the mouth and her pulse was feeble.
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