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Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (MS)

Bantwal, Oct 22: A woman lecturer, who works in the Mangalore University college, exhibited the highest form of humanitarian values by not boarding the train in which she was supposed to travel to Bengaluru, in order to save the life of a co-passenger, who suffered a cardiac arrest at Bantwal railway station itself.

Hemavathi, a resident of Nelyadi, who works as lecturer, is the Good Samaritan, who saved the life of a man at Bantwal railway station.

On the night of September 28, Hemavathi was waiting at Bantwal railway station in order to board the train to Bengaluru to visit her daughter. As the train arrived, a man had cardiac arrest and fell on the platform. Hemavathi did not board the train and went to the rescue of the man in distress. Though she requested other passengers for help, none showed interest. Later, she took the man in an auto rickshaw to B C Road hospital and got him first aid. Later, the man was shifted to Mangaluru for higher treatment.

On the following day morning, Hemavathi went to KMC hospital in Mangaluru, enquired about the well-being of the man who suffered cardiac arrest and proceeded to Bengaluru. The matter did not get highlighted at all. However, on October 17, Hemavathi brought her mother to Dr Padmanabha Kamath at KMC Mangaluru. Incidentally, the man who was rescued by Hemavathi had recovered and came for check up with Dr Padmanabha Kamath. The rescued man introduced Hemavathi as the great mother who saved his life. Dr Kamath immediately appreciated the humanitarian deed of Hemavathi and gave her a letter of appreciation.