Telangana: Nalgonda traffic constable rushes car driver who suffered heart attack to hospital

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Jun 11, 2020, 20:03 IST

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Asking the driver to sit beside him in the car, the constable sat at the steering and drove the car to the nearest hospital. Doctors at the Suraksha hospital informed that the driver had suffered a heart attack and needed better medical care. The driver was transported to Hyderabad.

Telangana: Nalgonda traffic constable rushes car driver who suffered heart attack to hospital

A man who suffered a heart attack and was driving the car on the wrong side of the road in Nalgonda was rushed to the hospital in time by a traffic constable.

HYDERABAD: A man who suffered a heart attack and was driving the car on the wrong side of the road in Nalgonda was rushed to the hospital in time by a traffic constable.
The traffic constable, Hafeez was on duty at the clock tower in Nalgonda town. He noticed a car being driven on the wrong side of the road and stopped the driver and questioned him. The driver told him he was working for a travels company in Chennai and was driving from Hyderabad.

When he reached Chityala, he said he suffered discomfort in his chest.
Asking the driver to sit beside him in the car, the constable sat at the steering and drove the car to the nearest hospital. Doctors at the Suraksha hospital informed that the driver had suffered a heart attack and needed better medical care. The driver was transported to Hyderabad.
“The constable displayed a great presence of mind while speaking to a person driving on the wrong route. He has saved his life by taking him to the hospital in time,” said Nalgonda SP AV Ranganath.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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