Mumbai: Last week when the Rajkot couple rose Indian airplanes to Chicago, they just went to attend their son’s wedding, but the middle medical emergency – the wife suffered from a brain stroke – landed in Stockholm, a city they had never heard from.
However, since the flight was on land, the poor pair was found to help everywhere, thanks to Swedish socialism and Indian Diaspora resources, reported Manju V.
Hospital did not ask if his wife qualified to be treated there, whether his wife was entitled to be treated There, did he have money, said Dr.
Jaysukh Makwana (60), a dentist.
The Indian Embassy contacted Indranil Sinha, a researcher who worked nearby, who brought Makwana Gujarati and Hindi to places where he could find a pleasant vegetarian, food, helped him withdraw money and do a myriad of other jobs to help them.
Gujarat then took over.
Makwana said they were criminal when his wife Usha (63) suddenly found himself not moving, his speech out.
Fortunately, a neurologist is on a flight board.
“Overview, he said, brain stroke,” Married Majwana.
Ai 127 flights approached the Norwegian Sea.
Pilot, Capt N Billimoria, has the turn of Boeing 777 for medical emergencies, landing in Stockholm.
“If he suffered a stroke later, on the Atlantic, assistance would be 5-6 hours, late,” Makwana said.
In 45 minutes, the flight was on the ground, the patient was put into an ambulance waiting, while the local police escorted the husband for an emergency visa to the Stockholm Arlanda airport terminal.
“I heard they said the ‘Orlando’ terminal and was relieved we had landed in the US because my son was here,” he said.
But they are in Stockholm.
“I don’t know where this place is.
The only country we travel is where our son works,” said Makwana.
Indian water has their bags delivered in a short time.
“The police were very helpful with visas and dropped me to a hotel,” Makwana said.
When he arrived at the hospital, Suresh Kumar from the Indian Embassy had contacted Indranil Sinha, who worked at an institute located near the hospital.
“I went to see him.
I only knew that a Indian in a foreign country would comfort him,” said Sinha.
In the following days, Sinha did Myriad Jobs to help them.
“I contacted my gujarati friends and the word spread among their communities,” Sinha said.
On November 13, Makwana’s wife was transferred from the ICU to the General Ward, while Kaushik Patel, a Gujarati Stockholmer moved it from the hotel to his house.
“They drove me to the hospital in the morning, picked me up at night, every day.
Another family took me to lunch Gujarati every day.
Someone gave me a SIM card, someone else who bought me a sweater, the temperature was 3 degrees Celsius.
Other people get me Cellular charger, “he said.
“This is the virtue of hospital staff, police, officials of embassy and local Indians.
I have never experienced anything like this,” The Dentist said.
His son, living in Florida, USA, will get married on November 20.
It is not yet known whether Makwaas will be able to make it for the ceremony.