Indian worker critically injured in road mishap in Iraq being flown back for medical treatment in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: Forty days after he was severely injured in a road accident in Erbil, Iraq, a Telangana worker will be flown back to India.
After reaching Hyderabad on Wednesday, Jadi Venkataswamy will straight be taken to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) for treatment. When contacted, Chitti Babu, an official in the General Administration (NRI) Department told TOI that the chief secretary had written letters to the Indian Embassy in Baghdad and the ministry of external affairs to help Jadi Venkataswamy return to the country.
Jadi Venkataswamy had to be put on a flight to India from Baghdad but it was the travel that he had to make the more than 300 km road journey from Erbil to Baghdad which was a challenge. Erbil is a conflict zone and that posed a problem. Patkuri Basanth Reddy, president of Gulf Welfare and Cultural Association said a group of workers from Telangana who are in Erbil and the embassy officials put Venkataswamy in a vehicle and ensured his safe passage to Baghdad. There were at least 10 check posts of security forces that they had to stop to be allowed to proceed further. The local police too accompanied the vehicle at places where it was necessary due to security reasons.
On March 23 this year, Jadi Venkataswamy was hit by a speeding vehicle while he was waiting to cross the road after having gone to meet a friend in Erbil. He was to return to his village in Kurdistan where he was employed in a poultry farm but the accident resulted in him losing a leg. He alsod fractured an arm. His spinal cord was also damaged badly and suffered injuries on his face too.
The 35-year-old man from Timmapur village in Macherial, Telangana, who had gone to Iraq for work, was admitted in West Erbiil Emergency Hospital, Erbil.