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.
84-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.
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