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If pool had an ambulance, 73-year-old ‘would have lived’, say swimmers
Updated On: 17 May, 2023 07:54 AM IST | Mumbai | Shirish Vaktania
Swimmers carry man on stretcher to nursing home, then take an auto to hospital, but all in vain, as he dies because of delay in medical aid
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Bharat Raj (in yellow T-shirt), the deceased
Despite multiple accidents, as highlighted by mid-day time and again, the BMC has failed to keep an ambulance on standby at its Chembur swimming pool. Had there been one, the life of a 73-year-old could have been saved on Tuesday morning, said members. Bharat Raj suffered a heart attack after swimming, following which he was carried on a stretcher to a nursing home and then to a hospital in an auto. He was declared dead within minutes of admission, they added.
This is the second death of an elderly person since April, said the aggrieved members of General Arunkumar Vaidya Swimming Pool in Chembur. “The adamant babus are unwilling to listen to our request to station an ambulance at every swimming pool in the city,” they added. Raj arrived at the pool at 8 am and suffered a heart attack at 8.45 am, the members said. “We (the members) brought a stretcher and rushed him to a nearby nursing home,” a friend of Raj told mid-day.
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