heart attack

The Mumbai-London flight had to make an emergency landing at Bucharest, Romania, so the person could be treated.

Bracing himself against the pain, Captain Acosta managed to touch-down at the Kolkata airport before being rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery!

The device analyses a set of enzymes to determine whether or not a person is at risk of a heart attack. And takes only 10-15 minutes to display the result.

“The gentleman was in his 80s and when I saw him, his eyes had rolled back, and he looked pale," says Amandeep, who confesses he did panic for about three to five seconds, before his training kicked in. He knew he had to respond now, and there was no time to lose.

In December last year, Prof Lalji Singh, known as the Father of DNA Fingerprinting in India, died after he suffered a major heart attack while at the Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Babatpur in Varanasi.

Quick actions by Constables K Chandan Singh and Inayathulla Khan helped the heart attack patient

Dr. Rajat Arora writes about the reasons why young and seemingly healthy people suffer from heart attacks.

Developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, this portable device is being adopted by firms to facilitate easier ECG reading and expert consultation from remote areas.