PM Modi sends medical team after journalist faints at rally
Baripada: During a poll rally in Baripada town, Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interrupted his speech to attend to a man who had fainted due to the hot and humid weather.
The youth has been identified as Dolagovinda Barik, a television journalist, who was quickly taken to a hospital for treatment.
The maximum temperature in Baripada on Wednesday was 39.5 degrees Celsius while humidity was 83 per cent, according to the Met Department.
According to a PTI report, After seeing the man fainting, Modi stopped his speech and asked the crowd to create space for him to allow flow of air.
The PM’s doctors provided first aid to Barik and shifted to the district headquarters hospital.
The man later recovered after being treated in the special ward for heat wave patients, a doctor attending to him said.
Barik thanked the Prime Minister for the gesture.
“Suddenly I could not see anything and fainted. I have not heard the PM asking his doctors to treat me. Later people told me that Modi ji was worried about my health condition,” Barik said.
