Jindal was studying at Vinnytsia National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsia. Jindal’s uncle Krishan Gopal told reporters in Barnala that they had received information about his ill health on February 3 and the Ukrainian authorities had sought the family’s approval to conduct the operation.
Father and uncle went to visit son in Ukraine
Gopal said that he and Chandan’s father had gone to Ukraine on February 7. Gopal later returned while his brother stayed with his son in Ukraine.
Help sought by writing a letter to Principal Secretary Home
The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Barnala has written a letter to the Principal Secretary Home, urging him to provide assistance to the family. According to the letter, Chandan Jindal was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Vinnitsa Emergency Hospital (Kievska Street 68) after falling ill. Jindal was suffering from ischemia stroke (obstruction of blood flow to the brain) in the brain. He breathed his last today.
Father appealed for help in bringing son’s body
Jindal’s father has sought the government’s help to bring his son’s body to India through an air ambulance from the Cyrate border in Romania. An Indian student was killed in shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.
Chandan Jindal (file photo)