Senior citizen dies at airport

Mumbai: A 72-year-old passenger aboard an Air India flight died at the airport soon after his flight landed in the city on Saturday morning. This is the second death reported from the airport in the last five days. The deceased, Laxman Meghraj Punjabi, was a heart patient and was travelling alone from Addis Ababa to Mumbai.
The MIAL authorities got a call from the airline at 5.40 am. An airport official said a doctor rushed to attend to Punjabi, who was bleeding.
The doctor found no pulse and couldn't record blood pressure. "Our doctor checked the patient's respiration and used the defibrillator to revive him,'' said the official. An MIAL spokesperson said the patient was given adrenaline and atropine injections and put on a drip.
"The passenger was declared dead at 6.25 am,'' said an MIAL spokesperson.
Punjabi's relatives, who arrived later, informed the airport officials that he had been fitted with a pacemaker.
21/12/08 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India

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