New York: A quick-thinking Indian-origin doctor in the US has saved the life of a two-year-old boy who suffered an asthma attack onboard a transatlantic flight by creating a makeshift inhaler out of a cup and a bottle.
Dr Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York was aboard the Air Canada flight from Spain to the US on September 18 when he was notified of the toddler in trouble. The boy was crying and short of breath and his parents had accidentally packed his asthma medication in checked luggage, ABC News reported.
The child’s oxygen level was dipping down and he needed oxygen as well as asthma medication.
Mr Guru, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, came up with a jerry-rigged device that would deliver both oxygen and medication to the baby. He cut up a water bottle and added oxygen to one end and the adult inhaler through a small hole in the bottle.
