The Indian embassy will provide all possible assistance to community members injured in the recent gas blast at a restaurant at Duhail.
This was informed by Indian Ambassador Sanjiv Arora, who was responding to reports in the media about Mohamed Ismail, a driver who suffered serious injuries.
“An official from the Indian embassy and a representative of the Indian Community Benevolent Forum (ICBF) had gone to the hospital to meet all the injured Indians,” the envoy told Gulf Times yesterday.
A newspaper reported yesterday that the Hamad Hospital refused to admit a critically wounded Ismail as he had no ID card when he was taken to the hospital immediately after the blast in Duhail.
“If he wanted to leave for India for further treatment, as is understood from by some of his friends, we at the embassy are only too willing to extend him a helping hand as and when he is able to travel,” said the envoy. The embassy, said Arora, would also arrange for his ticket, if required.
Efforts are also being initiated to repatriate the bodies of the two Indians from Andhra Pradesh, namely Venkateshwarlu and Shaikh who were killed in the blast that claimed 11 lives, including five Indians.
Venkateshwarlu was a native of Rajampet on eastern part of the state and Shaikh was reported to have come from Cudappah district in Rayalseema, said the ambassador. “I personally spoke to the immediate relatives of the two, including the wife of Shaikh yesterday”.
