Naresh, India’s former envoy to US, dies in Goa

the goan I networkrPANAJI rr“He was admitted to the hospital on Friday evening with complaints of fever and with myalgia (muscle pain) for three days followed with multiple episodes of vomiting and loose stools from the afternoon onwards,” Shekhar Salkar, chief of clinical services at Manipal Hospital, Goa told the PTI. r Chandra was then shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where he suffered from a cardiac arrest at 10.15 pm on Friday, he said. r“On admission, his blood pressure and oxygenation were low”, Salkar said. r The doctors were able to revive Chandra from the cardiac arrest but his organs had started failing, he said. r “On July 9 at 10.05 pm, he suffered another cardiac arrest. Despite all the efforts, the patient could not be revived and he was declared dead at 10.40 pm,” Salkar said. rChandra had served as the Cabinet Secretary from 1990-92 and was the Indian Ambassador to the US from 1996 to 2001. He was conferred with the Padma Vibhushan -- India’s second highest civil honour -- in 2007. rHospital sources said that Chandra’s body had been preserved in the morgue and his family members had been informed. The body would be flown to Delhi for the final rites. According to The Hindu, the writer Dr Maria Couto from Aldona had referred the ailing Chandra for treatment. rDr Couto was quoted in the report as saying that Chandra had been a family friend since 1974. He used to be a frequent visitor to Goa and stayed with his nieces, one at Nerul and another one at Parra. rWhile he was holidaying in Goa he took ill, and it was Couto who called Dr Salkar and North Goa Collector Nila Mohanan to help him.