CHANDIGARH: A few days later returning damaging and changed from this Covid-ICU, four-time Asian Games gold medallist Milkha Singh passed out because of post-Covid complications in the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) hospital on Friday.
He was 90.
“Dad just passed out,” his son along with celebrated golfer Jeev Milkha Singh supported TOI more than a text message.
Though the family was to come into terms with the passing from this 85-year-old Nirmal Kaur, that whined to Covid-related complications in a private hospital at Mohali on Sunday, the mythical athlete lost a massive struggle after developing fever along with a dip at oxygen saturation degree from Thursday night at the medical ICU of this PGI hospital.
The Padma Shri awardee had contracted Covid-19 on May 19, also was declared at the Covid ICU of exactly the identical hospital prior to returning damaging on Wednesday.
The 1958 Commonwealth Games gold medallist has been declared to this PGIMER about June 3 following his oxygen prices dipped in home after treatment in the Fortis hospital at Mohali for weekly.
The mythical athlete’s biggest performance is still the fourth-place end in the 400m closing of the 1960 Rome Olympics.
In addition, he represented India at the 1956 and 1964 Olympics.
Milkha Singh Goes out after long Struggle with Covid
