No care for injured prof at IGI

New Delhi: The trauma for Berlin-based Sunil Sengupta, a 79-year-old Indian professor, began on April 19 when he arrived in Delhi from Kolkata on an Indian Airlines flight around 11pm. As he was getting down from the airline bus at the arrival terminal, he tripped and fell.
The airline staff arranged for a wheel chair and took him to the medical centre at the airport. "The doctor there checked me and gave me a referral slip for a city hospital, saying I required urgent treatment. He did not say I had suffered a fracture," he said.
By then, it was nearly 2am. "The airline officials who had accompanied me to the unit said it wasn't possible to take me to a hospital then and offered to escort me to a friend's house. When I refused, they said I could be taken to a hospital if I paid Rs 1,000. Since I had only Rs 500 in cash, they said I could spend the night at the shuttle lounge in terminal IA," he said.
Sengupta lay at the lounge till a worker arrived in the morning and helped him recharge his mobile phone. Only then could he contact his friends who took him to a hospital.
29/04/08 Neha Lalchandani/Times of India

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