Cancer patient

Tata Memorial Hospital

Thane railway station

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on way to Tata hospital collapses in train; left unattended for around half an hour at Thane station.A cancer patient on his way to thefor treatment died aton Friday after his wife’s cries for help failed to get the attention of railway authorities for around half an hour.Deepak Gupta, 35, and his wife, Resham, were on their way to Parel from Kalyan when he collapsed in train. “He started feeling uneasy and collapsed as the train neared Thane. Passengers in the train then helped carry him out of the train and placed him on a platform bench,” said Kanhaiya Gupta, a relative of the deceased. He claimed railway officials failed to notice Resham, who was crying next to Deepak’s lifeless body, for close to half an hour after they got down from the train at 8 am.While officials rushed to the spot after a passenger informed them about the woman’s plight, the effort went in vain as a doctor at the Thane railway station’s emergency room declared Deepak dead on arrival.“A woman was crying next to her husband’s dead body for close to half an hour and the authorities didn’t suspect anything wrong. This shows how callously the railway administration takes its duty,” said Deepak’s cousin.“If not for the passengers, the railways wouldn’t have known of the woman’s plight at all,” said Subhash Gupta, former member of zonal railway users consultative council.However, Sunil Udasi, chief public relation officer of central railway, claimed their actions weren’t delayed. “On going through the, we found the person was brought down by passengers at around 8:15 am. Station officials were informed about the incident by passengers and they reached the spot at around 8:30 am with a stretcher and rushed him to the emergency room. There was no delay,” he said.The deceased is survived by his wife and two children –11-year-old son and a 9-year-old daughter.