Doctor couple go beyond call of duty, reunite Yemeni youth with family

Sumedha Sharma

Tribune News Service

Gurugram, April 23

Going beyond the call of duty, a frontline warrior doctor couple managed to unite a Yemeni national with his family.

Owing to his hyper-anxious behaviour, the Yemeni youth was taken to be a psychiatric patient. But government hospital emergency in-charge Dr Yogender Singh and his wife Dr Saroj coordinated with the Delhi Police and managed to get the youth across to the embassy and then his family.

It all started on April 18 when a call was made to a centralised ambulance number about a foreigner suspected to be suffering from coronavirus lying semi-conscious on a roadside near Kadarpur village.

He was immediately rushed to the civil hospital and attended to by Dr Yogender. Though he tested negative for Covid, preliminary investigation revealed that the unidentified foreign national had recently undergone neurosurgical procedures.

He was restless and would speak in his mother tongue, which nobody at the hospital could understand. “He refused to let anybody come near him. We asked him to write and it took two days for us to get him to do so,” says Dr Yadav.

A translator identified the words as “Yusuf of Yemen”. Dr Yadav tried calling up the Yemen embassy, but the calls went unanswered. Then, he sought help from his wife Dr Saroj, employed at a dispensary in New Delhi. She got in touch with the police.

After two days, Yusuf’s family was traced. It was revealed that he had lost his passport and was on medical tourism here. His family has issued a letter of thanks to the Delhi Police and the doctor couple.