Hyderabad: A forty five-year-old man from Telangana died due to heart attack in the course of Krishna Pushkaralu on Wednesday. He was declared ‘brought dead’ by the district hospital at Mahabubnagar.
Earlier, in a similar incident during the Pushkaralu celebrations, a 40-year-old man had been rushed to the emergency section of the hospital after he suffered a heart attack, but could not be saved.
In the 79 health camps put up at the 79 ghats for the Puskaralu in Nalgonda and Mahabubnagar districts, as many as 56,781 cases of illness were reported.
Health director Dr Lalitha Kumari said, “For the two persons, who had heart ailments, there were sudden attacks. We tried our level best to rush them from the camps to hospitals. One died on the way and the other died after reaching the hospital. Several visitors of the ghats are either being admitted for coming for a checkup with problems of vomiting, diarrhoea and body pain.”
Not just the pilgrims visiting the ghats for a holy dip, but many health officials and police personnel who are working day and night at the ghats were also complaining of dehydration, said the officials at the health camps. Many wish government take note of these problems and make sure they won’t recur.
