Maulvi Shahabuddin Pir Mohammed, who died of cardiac arrest on Tuesday, is reported to have had a history of heart disease and diabetes.
MUMBAI: Maulvi Shahabuddin Pir Mohammed, 61, became the seventh passenger to die at the Mumbai airport in the past three months. Shahabuddin died of cardiac arrest on Tuesday soon after returning from a forty-day Haj. He was travelling from Jeddah on Gulf Air flight GF 056.
Shahabuddin, who collapsed at gate 11 of the mezzanine floor at the international airport, is reported to have had a history of heart disease and diabetes. “We got a call from Gulf Air staff at around 4:40am that a passenger had collapsed,” said a spokesperson of the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL). “The doctors at Terminal 2A reached the gate at 4:45am.”
The spokesperson said the doctors found Shahabuddin lying unconscious on the floor. They could detect neither pulse nor heart beats while examining Shahabuddin. Moreover, his pupils did not react to light.
“Another doctor from Terminal 2C was called,” the MIAL spokesperson said. “CPR was administered on the patient and a defibrillator was attached to him. An adrenalin injection was administered as a last resort, but the patient was declared dead at 5:15am.”
A case of death was registered at the Sahar police station and the body was taken to Cooper Hospital for a post-mortem at 9:15am. Dr SV Kachare, senior medical officer at Cooper Hospital, said, “Shahabuddin died due to coronary heart disease. He also had an underlying heart disease.”
Kachare said such patients can suffer from abnormal cardiac rhythms due to stress and exertion, and can die from such a condition. “If basic life support was given on time he would have reacted,” Kachare said.
Kachare, however, said the defibrillator does not work in all cases and the best option in the circumstances is to attempt to revive a patient through rescue breaths and chest compression.
In most cases, putting the patient on a defibrillator can cause death as the device is to be allowed only in specific conditions, Kachare said.
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