Kerala: India's 'Florence Nightingale' who saved soldier's life mid-air

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Kerala: India's 'Florence Nightingale' who saved soldier's life mid-air

An Indian nurse who was travelling to be honoured for her work has been praised for saving the life of her co-passenger on a flight.

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Geetha P was travelling from the southern state of Kerala to the national capital Delhi to attend a function to honour winners of the Florence Nightingale award for nurses.

But 30 minutes after the plane took off, the cabin crew made an announcement calling for medical help.

Suman, a soldier on his way to Indian-administered Kashmir, had collapsed in his seat and showed no signs of a pulse.

"I started CPR [Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation] when he was on his seat," Ms Geetha told the BBC.

"One of my colleagues had collapsed like this in the hospital and I had given CPR and rushed her into the cardiac intensive care unit. There were several other cases too in the hospital. But this is the first time I had to do this on a flight," she said.

After the CPR, there were some signs of a pulse.

The flight crew had two bottles of IV fluids. Another doctor on the flight, Premkumar, who had also rushed to help, quickly applied a cannula to the patient.

"In about an hour or so, Suman was able to eat something, too. Throughout the flight, I sat next to him in the back of the plane," Ms Geetha says.

Once the plane landed in Delhi, a medical team rushed Suman to a hospital, where he is recovering.

Dr Mohammed Asheel, a World Health Organization officer who was on the same plane, told the BBC that he first thought Ms Geeta was Suman's relative when she and others ran to help him.

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