South Korean doctors on Manila-bound flight save passenger in midair emergency

The passenger fell seriously ill on a flight from South Korea to the Philippines on March 24. - KIM JEONG-HWAN/FACEBOOK

SEOUL: South Korean doctors aboard a flight to the Philippines helped save a passenger who was unable to breathe, one of the physicians said on April 2.

Dr Kim Jeong-hwan, a professor of family medicine at Gangnam Eulji Medical Centre, wrote on Facebook that a passenger fell seriously ill on a flight from Incheon to Manila on March 24. The passenger’s pulse was dropping, and she was struggling to breathe.