In a 'heroic way' a Sepoy Sunil, an ambulance assistant of the 456 filed hospital saved the life of an eight month old infant in the Rajdhani Express en route to Dibrugarh.

What happened?

As per the army official statement, the infant went into sudden respiratory distress and became unresponsive around 4:30 pm in the train, Sepoy Sunil who was in the same coach of New Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express immediately rushed to help. He was returning from his leave,

Timely CPR saved the life

Sepoy Sunil found that baby had no pulse and was not breathing, so he placed the baby on a flat surface and began paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), performing two-finger chest compressions followed by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

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