The family of veteran actor Nana Patekar, including his wife Neelakanti Patekar and son Malhar Patekar, arrived at the Goa Medical College and Hospital on Thursday ahead of his post-mortem, which will be conducted by a three-member team of doctors.
The Goa Medical College constituted a team of three doctors — associate professor at the Department of Medicine Kedar Narvekar, assistant professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine Pannag S Kumar, and lecturer at the Department of Pathology Peter Rodrigues — to conduct the post-mortem. A medico-legal case was registered since Patekar was ‘brought dead’ to the hospital despite efforts to revive him. The police came and the body is now shifted to Goa Medical College for the post-mortem. As it was night, I think his friend could not get the message at that time. He reached his house at around 4am by which time he was gasping and sweating. He sent his caretaker here, took the ambulance and went there and by the time they went there, he was unresponsive, they started CPR in the house.
“We have tried our best to give him cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but he was declared dead at 5:20 and we had to make it a medico-legal case since it was a case of being ‘brought dead’ and we do not know the cause of death. “According to what we know, he messaged his friend that he was not feeling well at around 2:30 am, that he was uncomfortable with pain on his left side. Shifted him while on CPR to the hospital, but by that time it was too late and he was declared dead at 5:20,” Salkar added.
Once the post-mortem is done, the body will be given to their relatives,” Shekhar Salkar of Goa’s Manipal Hospital said.
