Hungarian doctor saves life on Lufthansa Flight

Another story to prove that everyday heroes and heroines do exist, and they do not wear capes. Katalin Rádi is a Hungarian doctor who has been working in Germany for 5 years. She was on her way to Shanghai from Frankfurt, when she saved another passenger’s life on a Lufthansa flight, index.hu reports.

The plane was somewhere above Siberia when the captain called for help on the speaker around 10 pm on 11 November. A man was taken ill, so immediate doctor’s assistance was needed. A Chinese man was unconscious, had no pulse and he did not breath. Katalin Rádi, together with another doctor on the plane, a German surgeon, immediately performed CPR. Several stewardesses and Katalin’s husband, who is a male nurse, also helped stabilizing the man.

“We have been performing CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) for a whole minute, and we also had an oxygen tank, the flight was very well-equipped.”

said Rádi.

The language barrier posed difficulties for everyone. Rádi talked in German to a stewardess who told everything to another stewardess in English, who then, translated everything to the ill man’s wife in Chinese.