Arunachalee doctor saves Life of co-passenger on flight

Our Correspondent

Itanagar: A doctor is never off-duty even when on a holiday. A doctor from the State realized this recently while flying from Delhi to Guwahati when a medical emergency arose on the flight of Spice-Jet Airways on Friday.

The doctor rose to the occasion and saved the life of a co-passenger.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) Arunachal branch honorary Secretary Dr Jego Ori was returning from Dubai-Abu Dabhi tour and was on his way to Guwahati from New Delhi in a Spice Jet flight.

Hearing an announcement from the flight crew about medical emergency, Dr Ori without wasting time went to the front seat where a family from Noida was travelling to Guwahati to visit their relatives, and their son was having breathlessness problem.

The child was having some cardiac ailment since childhood as informed by his mother. He was cyanosed and pulse became feeble and breathlessness. On the advise of Dr Ori, the crew members gave him oxygen and kept him in forward position. Later they requested Dr Ori to sit along with the boy and later he felt better.

“It was my first service I gave to any distress family at sky,” Ori said.

The crew members extended their gratitude to Dr Ori and nominated him as the most favourite passenger of the day and offered him to select any gift item which was refused by Dr Ori saying that it was his duty to help to help a family in distress being a doctor. It is worth mentioning here that Dr Ori, an ENT surgeon at Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (TRIHMS) was awarded the prestigious ‘Tamrapatra’ by the IMA recently in Madhya Pradesh.

Meanwhile Dr Ori requested Spice Jet authorities to keep at least portable pulse oximeter to monitor pulse and oxygen saturation level of such patient besides emergency medicines.

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