Air passenger dies

Mumbai: In a shocking incident, a passenger who showed signs of breathing difficulties all through a flight had to be rushed to a local hospital by his brother in an autorickshaw after they disembarked at Mumbai airport. The patient was declared dead before admission.
The incident took place late on May 17. The passenger, Jaisingh Chauhan (35), had travelled from Kochi to Mumbai on a GoAir flight along with his brother, Chandrashekhar Chauhan. It was the eleventh time an air passenger has died in the last seven months in Mumbai.
After landing at the domestic airport around midnight, the duo started looking for tickets for their onward journey to their native town in Uttar Pradesh. During this time, Jaisingh became breathless and had to be taken to a local hospital and then to Cooper Hospital in an autorickshaw, where he was declared dead before admission.
Strangely enough, all this while, despite the airport administration’s claims about state-of-the-art emergency facilities and an ambulance being present to deal with such emergencies, no medical assistance was provided.
Police sources said the deceased was an artisan working for a jewelery unit in Kerala for the last few months and was under treatment for a medical condition.
When asked why the patient had not been provided with an ambulance despite such an emergency, a spokesman for Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), said that it was possible that the medical staff was not informed about the patient’s status, either by the airlines or the relatives of the deceased persons.
21/05/07 Rajiv Sharma/Times of India

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Categories: Airports May 2007, GoAir May 2007, Safety May 2007