India, Jan. 4 -- By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD

Over the last one week we have been reading very distressing reports of how a patient of a heart attack, died most tragically in Canada, simply because prompt medical aid was not available to him within the time frame in which it could have saved his life.

Prashant Sreekumar, a 44-year-old man of Indian origin and a full-fledged, long tax-paying Canadian citizen, reportedly died of cardiac arrest on December 22, while waiting for definitive treatment at a major hospital in Edmonton, Canada.

An accountant by profession, Sreekumar's family rushed him to the hospital after he experienced severe chest pain and blurred vision in one eye while at work. At the hospital, he was given a preliminary e...