We gave medicines to support his blood pressure and heart functions. The key here was to keep him oxygenated, ventilated and hydrated till the antidote came.
“Cyanide starts to deprive tissues of oxygen. An online search revealed that a Hyderabad chemist had it. After a night-long search, the doctors and the family realised that the city did not have a single unit of the cyanide antidote kit that comprises amyl nitrite, sodium nitrite, and sodium thiosulfate. “We had to stop the respiratory paralysis and, subsequently, his heart from shutting down,” Dr Niteen Karnik, head of medicine at LTMG, said. His family moved him to Sion hospital, where doctors from the medicine department put him on a ventilator. The friend took him to a private nursing home, where the doctor induced vomiting and said he would require critical care.
When he collapsed, a passer-by picked up his phone and dialled a friend’s number. Within seconds of the first sip of water that had cyanide pills added to it, he felt a burning sensation in the throat and recalled spitting out the second sip. He said he had sourced the potassium cyanide from a jewellery shop in Zaveri Bazar for Rs 200.
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