Mumbai : A 37-year-old assistant police inspector attached with the Amboli police died on Thursday night after he suffered a massive heart attack while being treated for pulmonary embolism at Kokilaben Hospital in Andheri.
According to senior police inspector of Amboli police station, Ramesh Khadtare, the deceased police officer, Vishnu Rathod, had been admitted to the hospital nine days ago. He was found to have been suffering from pulmonary embolism which stands for blockage in the main artery of the lung or one of its branches by a substance that has travelled from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream.
Although he had always been healthy, Rathod had also been experiencing severe pain in his hands, legs and chest for the past 15 days, say his colleagues. Only after he was admitted to a hospital, was it revealed that he had developed a blockage in his lungs. At 10.30 pm on Thursday, the massive heart attack led to Rathod’s death.
Bringing into focus once again the fact that how an unhealthy lifestyle affects policemen, cardiologist at Asian Heart Institute, Dr Nilesh Gautam said that pulmonary embolism is a common ailment seen in police officers as one of the factors that lead to it are standing up and running around for long hours. “The clots are formed in the lower part of the body, such as legs, and then travel to the upper part of the body within 48 to 72 hours. Besides their hectic schedules, policemen also suffer from an unhealthy lifestyle which includes eating junk food, less sleep and other such things,” he said.
