Africa-Press – Mauritius. It is finally on board a plane of the “low cost” company SpiceJet, which is due to land in Plaisance at 1.40 pm on Wednesday, September 8, that the former prime minister is expected to travel to India for treatment.
As a reminder, Navin Ramgoolam contracted Covid-19, and he has been admitted to Wellkin since Friday. Hopefully, the ambulance is scheduled to take off at 2:20 p.
m. from the SSR airport. He has been waiting for several days now to travel to the Great Peninsula for treatment, following the advice of his doctors.
But, administrative difficulties, in relation to flight authorizations, especially in the Maldives, the payment – initiated by the Mauritian government but reimbursed by the Labor Party (PTr) – had prevented the ambulance from taking off from India yesterday.
The admission of Covid-19 positive Navin Ramgoolam to the Wellkin clinic on Friday instead of the New ENT Hospital, like other infected and symptomatic patients, raises questions among the population.
As well as the medical evacuation of the former Prime Minister in India (the steps have been initiated since Sunday), as advised by his attending doctors who do not want to take any risks.
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The national airline, Air Mauritius, was unwilling to risk Navin Ramgoolam’s relocation to India.
Why is this kind of commercial flight not recommended? Here are some answers. For example, on a commercial flight, passengers face a drop in air pressure, very low relative humidity and prolonged immobility. Commercial flights provide a decrease in partial pressure of oxygen (PO2) equivalent to an inspired fraction of oxygen (FiO2) of 15.1% at sea level.
Passengers can end up with an expansion of gas volumes intracorporeal (sinuses, ears, digestive tract, emphysema bubble), which can be up to 30%, a possible increase in the risk of thromboembolic disease or even a possible aggravation of a prior bronchial hyper reactivity.
According to Arvin Boolell, who coordinated the Ramgoolam family, PMO and the Indian Embassy, the healthier Red leader is going on an ambulance plane, chartered by India, to join the ‘All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
Discussions took place all day yesterday to find this ambulance plane, but it was not until early evening that the news broke. The costs will be incurred by the Labor Party, and the government is vouching.
Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth visited the Welkin Clinic around 5:15 pm yesterday with Minister of Health Dr Kailesh Jagutpal and Dr Zouberr Joomaye, advisor in the Prime Minister’s office.
The head of government did not meet with the leader of the Labor Party (PTr), but did have a meeting with the medical team, which treats the former Prime Minister (PM), and officials of that party.
Dr Farhad Aumeer, one of the doctors and also a deputy, told the express: “We needed this meeting with the Prime Minister because we have to put in place a big logistics”, he explained, while giving reassuring news on the state of health of the leader of the PTr.
Navin Ramgoolam was in communication with the express during the day yesterday. If he is better than Sunday and especially Friday, the panel of doctors who take care of him fear the long Covid.
He does not want to take any risks because of the comorbidities of the ex-PM and the fact that he is not vaccinated (due to his medical condition). Before this meeting, in the early afternoon, Navin Ramgoolam was starting to lose patience.
When the express spoke to him around 3:30 p. m. , there was no indication that he was going to be able to leave the country for his treatment in India as his doctors made a request that they could make the trip since Saturday.
During the conversation, he made it clear that he is grateful to anyone who wishes to help, but regrets that no planes were made available to him, even stating that if he had to return home, he was going to do it.
By the way, it returns to us that Pravind Jugnauth had a conversation with his wife, Veena, during the day yesterday. During a ceremony at the Central Barracks yesterday, the head of government addressed the press.
Since Dr Navin Ramgoolam was admitted to the Wellkin Clinic, we have provided him with all the assistance and support he needed to follow the treatment recommended by his doctors.
He expressed the wish to receive other treatments in India. Obviously, we are doing what is possible to make it easier to move, but for the day, it seems that is not possible.
We are there as a government, I will continue to provide support. It is a very difficult time for him, for his wife and for all his family. We express our solidarity with him and his family. We want him to recover as quickly as possible. ”
These are remarks nuanced with those of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alan Ganoo, and other contradictory information published in certain media, which seem to have played on Navin Ramgoolam’s nerves, yesterday afternoon, while on Sunday, he was preparing to board a special Air Mauritius flight.
The former prime minister was even to tell the express that he had been waiting for a flight since the weekend. “48 hours from the start. His kantity dimounn governma ki pe okip sa la, si pann resi fer nanien, mo pe al mo lakaz, “he told the express.
