After a Noida-based engineer collapsed while playing cricket, concern has grown among health experts who have warned youngsters, especially, those suffering from diabetes, hypertension and other diseases, to remain extra careful at the time when cases of heart attacks are on rise.
A training program was organised in the Central Health Ministry on giving first CPR in case of cardiac arrest, during which Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of State for Health Dr. Bharti Pawar and SP Singh Baghel were also present.
The emergency unfolded at Air India office's level 3, where CPR was administered to the captain, Himanil Kumar, by fellow staff. He was later taken to a hospital, but he could not be saved.
The 82-year-old actor breathed his last on Saturday morning around 9.57 am at Hyderabad's Apollo Hospital, Jagan, the public relations officer (PRO) of Apollo Hospital, informed.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar met the ailing former Maharashtra minister and Member of Legislative Council (MLA) Eknath Khadse at the Bombay Hospital after the latter suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday.
In an incident that struck a sad note to Navratri celebrations on the sixth day, a 17-year-old boy died after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest while playing Garba in Kapadvanj Kheda district.