CHENNAI: Coast Guard director basic Rakesh Pal, who was in Chennai to participate within the inauguration of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, died of cardiac arrest on Sunday. He was 59. Sources mentioned he landed in Chennai on Sunday morning from New Delhi and visited the Coast Guard headquarters close to INS Adyar to arrange for an occasion by which Union defence minister Rajnath Singh was the chief visitor.
Round 2pm, Pal complained of chest ache and uneasiness.Singh, who was additionally in the identical campus, visited Pal earlier than continuing to different occasions.
Suffered 4 cardiac arrests earlier than reaching hospital
Docs attending on Pal rushed him to Rajiv Gandhi Authorities Common Hospital. Sources mentioned he suffered not less than 4 cardiac arrests earlier than he reached hospital.
Docs used life-saving measures, together with a defibrillator, to revive him. When he reached the emergency room, his pulse and blood strain had been drastically low.
Docs carried out an angiogram and confirmed that the principle vessel supplying blood to the guts was blocked. A balloon angioplasty was carried out to take away the block and he was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU). “However his pulse and blood strain started fluctuating once more and he suffered one other cardiac arrest. We couldn’t revive him. He was declared lifeless at 7.10pm,” RGGGH dean Dr E Theranirajan mentioned.
Rajnath Singh, who inaugurated the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, got here to RGGGH together with Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin. Rakesh Pal’s mortal stays had been shifted to Cantonment Hospital at St Thomas Mount and could be taken to New Delhi for funeral.
Rakesh Pal was appointed because the twenty fifth director basic of the Indian Coast Guard in July 2023. An alumnus of the Indian Naval Academy, Rakesh Pal joined the Coast Guard in January 1989. In his profession spanning over 35 years, the flag officer has held a number of key appointments, distinguished amongst them being commander, Coast Guard area (north west), Gandhinagar, deputy director basic (coverage & plans), and extra director basic, Coast Guard at its headquarters in New Delhi.
He had huge sea expertise and commanded all courses of Indian Coast Guard ships – ICGS Samarth, ICGS Vijit, ICGS Sucheta Kriplani, ICGS Ahalyabai, and ICGS C-03. He additionally commanded two Coast Guard bases of the ahead space in Gujarat – Okha and Vadinar. He was conferred with Tatrakshak Medal in 2013 and President Tatrakshak Medal in 2018 for illustrious service.
Round 2pm, Pal complained of chest ache and uneasiness.Singh, who was additionally in the identical campus, visited Pal earlier than continuing to different occasions.
Suffered 4 cardiac arrests earlier than reaching hospital
Docs attending on Pal rushed him to Rajiv Gandhi Authorities Common Hospital. Sources mentioned he suffered not less than 4 cardiac arrests earlier than he reached hospital.
Docs used life-saving measures, together with a defibrillator, to revive him. When he reached the emergency room, his pulse and blood strain had been drastically low.
Docs carried out an angiogram and confirmed that the principle vessel supplying blood to the guts was blocked. A balloon angioplasty was carried out to take away the block and he was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU). “However his pulse and blood strain started fluctuating once more and he suffered one other cardiac arrest. We couldn’t revive him. He was declared lifeless at 7.10pm,” RGGGH dean Dr E Theranirajan mentioned.
Rajnath Singh, who inaugurated the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, got here to RGGGH together with Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin. Rakesh Pal’s mortal stays had been shifted to Cantonment Hospital at St Thomas Mount and could be taken to New Delhi for funeral.
Rakesh Pal was appointed because the twenty fifth director basic of the Indian Coast Guard in July 2023. An alumnus of the Indian Naval Academy, Rakesh Pal joined the Coast Guard in January 1989. In his profession spanning over 35 years, the flag officer has held a number of key appointments, distinguished amongst them being commander, Coast Guard area (north west), Gandhinagar, deputy director basic (coverage & plans), and extra director basic, Coast Guard at its headquarters in New Delhi.
He had huge sea expertise and commanded all courses of Indian Coast Guard ships – ICGS Samarth, ICGS Vijit, ICGS Sucheta Kriplani, ICGS Ahalyabai, and ICGS C-03. He additionally commanded two Coast Guard bases of the ahead space in Gujarat – Okha and Vadinar. He was conferred with Tatrakshak Medal in 2013 and President Tatrakshak Medal in 2018 for illustrious service.
