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Radio Leicester,4 mins

Is there a Doctor on the plane?

Ady Dayman

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Hearing the words "is a doctor on board" while on a plane is probably one of your worst nightmares. But when it happened on a recent flight to India, a doctor who works in Leicester stepped in and saved a man's life! Dr Vishwaraj Vemala, a consultant who works at the Leicester's Royal Infirmary, was travelling to Bangalore to take his mum home when a passenger went into cardiac arrest twice.

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