UAE hospital helps repatriate Indian construction worker paralysed waist down

UAE hospital helps repatriate Indian construction worker paralysed waist down

Ashok Kumar, a 44-year-old carpenter, was able to fly home on Monday.





An Indian construction worker who was found lying paralysed in an abandoned building in Ajman in January has finally been repatriated home, a social worker in Ajman told Khaleej Times.

Thanks to the generosity of the Sheikh Khalifa Hospital in Ajman, which provided him free treatment, and the Consulate-General of India, Ashok Kumar, a 44-year-old carpenter, was able to fly home on Monday, said general secretary of the Indian Association in Ajman Roop Sidhu.

He said: "Ashok was found lying face-down in an abandoned building in Ajman on January 12. Some passersby called for an ambulance and he was taken to the hospital, where he had been under treatment since."

According to his medical reports, Kumar suffered from acute alcoholic pancreatitis, aspiration pneumonia and associated dehydration and nutritional deficiencies. He also had clinical features of delirium.

"He was paralysed waist down. His company was not willing to take his responsibility and had even filed an absconding case against him." The hospital and the association spent days trying to track his family down, only to learn that Kumar hails from an extremely poor family in a village near Jalandhar district in