Jalpaiguri doc overlooks Covid threat, breathes life into kid

Jalpaiguri: In times when Covid protocol mandates physical distancing, a Jalpaiguri doctor risked his life to resort to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to save a 12-year-old boy who almost died.
Anutosh Mukherjee’s parents and family can’t thank Dr Debangshu Das enough.
Anutosh, from Jalpaiguri's Pandapara, was brought to a nursing home in Babupara locality by his mother after he suffered a seizure on Tuesday evening.
Doctors prescribed a CT scan of his brain. Anutosh was taken by ambulance to a clinic for the test as the nursing home lacked the equipment. On the way back, the boy lost consciousness.
As Anutosh was being brought back into the nursing home, Das had just started on a routine round of checking on his patients. Seeing the boy unconscious, Das examined him and found his pulse and blood pressure near zero. He administered mouth-to-mouth respiration and cardiac massage. Anutosh regained consciousness and was rushed to ICCU.
“The patient is now stable. All his vital parameters had almost disappeared. There was no other way to revive him but through mouth-to-mouth respiration,” Das said.