Abdul Kalam collapsed during a
lecture at the Indian Institute of Management in Shillong at around 6.30 pm and
was taken to the hospital
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam,
a popular head of state between 2002 and 2007, died today after he collapsed
during a lecture in Shillong.
83-year-old Kalam was rushed to
Bethany hospital in Nongrim hills after he collapsed during the lecture in the
Indian Institute of Management at around 6.30 PM.
Chief Secretary P B O Warjiri told
reporters outside the hospital that he had spoken to Union Home Secretary L C
Goyal asking for necessary arrangements to be made for carrying Kalam’s body
from Guwahati to Delhi tomorrow morning.
“The former President has been
admitted to Bethany hospital in a critical condition,” M Kharkrang, SP Khasi
Hills said earlier. The former President collapsed during a lecture at the
Indian Institute of Management at around 6.30 PM and was rushed to the hospital
in Nongrim hills in the capital city of Meghalaya, where he is in the Intensive
Care Unit (ICU).
Doctors from the army hospital and
North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences
(NEIGRIHMS) rushed to Bethany hospital. Governor V Shanmughanathan, Speaker Abu
Taher Mondal, Home Minister Roshan Warjiri, the Chief Secretary and DGP Rajiv
Mehta rushed to the hospital.
Governor V Shanmughanathan, Speaker
Abu Taher Mondal, Home Minister Roshan Warjiri, the Chief Secretary and DGP
Rajiv Mehta rushed to the hospital.
