Uttar Pradesh: Woman along with RPF personnel gives CPR to revive her husband at Mathura junction

LUCKNOW: A woman along with railway protection force men performed Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) to revive her husband at Mathura junction after his heart stopped following hypoxemia which he developed due to bilateral interstitial pneumonia in lungs after travelling at high altitude as part of "char dham yatra" in fever.
The incident took place on Friday and Saturday intervening night at around 12.05am. The couple was identified as Keshavan (67) and Daya (56), who were travelling from Hazrat Nizamuddin to Kozhikode in B4 coach of Hazrat Nizamuddin - Thiruvananthapuram Central SF Express. Though Daya saved her husband, but on Sunday her father Unnikrishnan succumbed in Kerala.
A video of CPR performed on Keshavan by his wife and RPF men which went viral on Sunday---saw Daya giving mouth to mouth air and consistent chest compressions to her husband, while RPF men rubbed palm and foot to warm up Keshavan's body which was cold. Later, RPF men too performed chest compression on Keshavan.
Speaking to TOI over phone, their son assistant professor Neeraj of Ayurvedic faculty in Saharanpur said, "My father is in ICU as he has developed bilateral pneumonia due to high altitude travel. Both my parents had gone to Uttarakhand along with a group of 80 people on char dham yatra. During their travels in Gangotri, Yamunotri and Badrinath, my father's health deteriorated as incessant rain made it difficult to cope up with cold weather. He lost consciousness and even sense of direction during the journey. Later he developed high fever.”
Keshavan and Daya are retired bankers and post retirement they have been on tour to explore India.
"My parents were expecting that things would improve after alighting from high altitude into plains, but even while boarding the train at Delhi my father had high fever. During the train journey in the AC coach, my father’s heart stopped working and he was alighted at Mathura junction, where my mother and RPF men gave him CPR to revive him," said Dr Neeraj.
Talking to TOI, station house officer RPF Mathura Junction, Awadesh Goswami said, "We had received a distress call that a passenger was in critical condition and needed immediate help. Our on duty staff ASI Madan Singh, constables Ashok Kumar and Niranjan Singh rushed to the passenger and engaged in performing CPR along with the passenger's wife."