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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 (11:20:36) |
| Tags : Deepak Obhrai, Canadian government |
Indian origin minister plays good Samaritan mid-air |
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| Toronto: Deepak Obhrai, an Indian origin junior minister in the Canadian government, has earned kudos for helping out a woman diabetic while on a flight from Ottawa to Calgary.
Obhrai, a five-time MP from Calgary and parliamentary secretary (minister of state) to Canada's minister for foreign affairs, was flying from Ottawa to his hometown last on Monday when a woman passenger suddenly fell ill.
Seeing the crew in a commotion at the back of the plane, Obhrai went and checked the woman. Being a diabetic who carries an insulin kit with himself all the time, Obhrai sensed that the woman's sugar level had dipped.
"I figured it out and took a reading with my blood-sugar measuring instrument. I was right. I asked the attendants to give her orange juice."
"The woman drank the juice and was soon feeling normal. She completed her journey and walked off a normal person," Obhrai told media.
The good deed mid air earned the Indo-Canadian minister kudos from the crew and the national media.
Obhrai, 59, has been a diabetic for more than two decades.
"I have taken all precautions and done well," he said.(IANS) |
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