Hospital pays tribute to staff killed in air crash
May 27th, 2011 - 10:08 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Paying tribute to the two doctors and a male nurse killed in the air ambulance crash in Faridabad late Wednesday night, Apollo hospital authorities here Friday said “they have lost their best professionals in the mishap”.
“We are still grappling with the enormity of the loss. We have lost very close members who were some of our best professionals so far,” said Anupam Sibal, group medical director of Apollo Hospital, at a condolence meet organised at the hospital.
Two Delhi-based doctors from the hospital, Rajesh Jain and Syed Arshad Abbas, and a male nurse from Patna, Cyril P. Joy, were killed in the crash, apart from the two pilots, Harpreet Singh and Manjeet Singh, and the patient Rahul Raj, and his cousin Ratnesh.
“They have left a rich legacy for the hospital,” added Sibal.
The air ambulance crash on top of a house in Faridabad’s residential colony killed 10 people, included seven on board and three on the ground.
Apart from the people on the chartered plane, 55-year-old Vedvati, her daughter Sarita, 19, daughter-in-law Rani, 20, were among those killed.
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