Dubai: The mother of a six-month old baby who fell seriously ill on an Air Arabia flight from Nagpur to Sharjah, forcing it to make an emergency landing in Muscat, has thanked the airline for their compassion and urged other mothers to seek a second opinion before flying with a sick child.
Sarah Bombaywalla, 24, was travelling to the UAE with her son Adam and her in-laws on March 4 when her son had a coughing fit on board that left him fighting for breath.
“We live in Paris where my son was born and were visiting my in-laws’ in Yavatmal, a city close to Nagpur,” Bombaywalla told Gulf News, from her parents residence in Sharjah. “Somehow, my son was not able to acclimatise to the weather [in India] and kept suffering from bouts of cold, allergy and cough so much so that he was hospitalised in February.”
Before booking a flight to Sharjah, the mother consulted a paediatrician, who gave the child clearance to fly.
“However, half way through the flight Adam started coughing incessantly. When this went on for an hour, I was worried and sought help. I was fortunate that there were three doctors on board who immediately volunteered to help and oxygen was provided to stabilise my child,” said the mother.
Despite help from the doctors however, the baby continued to cough and went pale as his condition worsened.
Dr Abhay Kumar Pandey, interventional cardiologist from Prime Hospital in Dubai, who happened to be on board, said: “It appeared that the child was either choking on a foreign body or had a very severe chest infection.
“There was another anaesthetologist and doctor on board and together we tried to clear his airways by dislodging any foreign body manually. Then we started oxygen and also gave him nebulisation with two kinds of bronchodilators.
21/03/19 Suchitra Bajpai Chaudhary/Gulf News
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Sarah Bombaywalla, 24, was travelling to the UAE with her son Adam and her in-laws on March 4 when her son had a coughing fit on board that left him fighting for breath.
“We live in Paris where my son was born and were visiting my in-laws’ in Yavatmal, a city close to Nagpur,” Bombaywalla told Gulf News, from her parents residence in Sharjah. “Somehow, my son was not able to acclimatise to the weather [in India] and kept suffering from bouts of cold, allergy and cough so much so that he was hospitalised in February.”
Before booking a flight to Sharjah, the mother consulted a paediatrician, who gave the child clearance to fly.
“However, half way through the flight Adam started coughing incessantly. When this went on for an hour, I was worried and sought help. I was fortunate that there were three doctors on board who immediately volunteered to help and oxygen was provided to stabilise my child,” said the mother.
Despite help from the doctors however, the baby continued to cough and went pale as his condition worsened.
Dr Abhay Kumar Pandey, interventional cardiologist from Prime Hospital in Dubai, who happened to be on board, said: “It appeared that the child was either choking on a foreign body or had a very severe chest infection.
“There was another anaesthetologist and doctor on board and together we tried to clear his airways by dislodging any foreign body manually. Then we started oxygen and also gave him nebulisation with two kinds of bronchodilators.
21/03/19 Suchitra Bajpai Chaudhary/Gulf News
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