CHANDIGARH: Former Indian women’s volleyball team captain Nirmal Kaur, the wife of celebrated athlete Milkha Singh, died on Sunday following a protracted struggle against Covid-19.
She was 85.
She’s survived by her husband, son Jeev Milkha Singh and three brothers.
She was here on Sunday eveningas her four-time Asian Games gold medalist husband chose to combat the virus at the ICU of PGI.
Kaur was declared to Fortis hospital in Mohali using Covid-19 pneumonia May 26, a couple days after her husband had been admitted to the identical hospital.
But, four days after, she had been changed to the ICU because of rising oxygen requirement.
There was a fall in her oxygen amount because of Covid-19 and she had been placed on high flow nasal cannula and noninvasive ventilator prevailed since then.
She had been steady, however, her condition hadn’t improved, according to the daily medical updates in the household.
She chose to be under critical medical attention before passing her final Sunday afternoon.
“We’re deeply saddened to tell you that Nirmal Milkha Singh passed away following a valiant fight against Covid-19 in 4pm now,” the family issued a statement Sunday.
“A back of this Milkha household, she had been 85 years old.
It’s awful that the Flying Sikh Milkha Singhji couldn’t attend the cremation that was conducted this day itself as he’s still in the ICU himself” Produced on October10, 1936, at Sheikhupura (currently in Punjab province of Pakistan), Kaur functioned as manager of sport for girls in the Punjab authorities.
She’s largely credited to the contribution to the modernisation of their sport infrastructure throughout the country in addition to at Chandigarh.
Kaur, who hailed as the manager of sport, Chandigarh management, in 1994, played an important part in establishing the Sector 42 sports complicated.
She had been the joint manager of sports once the baseball astroturf, a first at the Tricity, was set in the Sector 42 sports complicated aside from the indoor badminton hall .
Nirmal, that had a master’s degree in political science from 1958 in Punjab University,