THE GOOD SAMARITAN

Accidents occur in the most unlikely places. It was early in the morning on Thursday the 22^nd July 2016. Two ramps off the NH Bypass lead to the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, one for the entry and the other for the exit. Unmindful of the restrictions a young woman was riding her scooter down the ramp to the entrance.  A young man, an employee of a contractor at the Airport was going up the ramp on his scooter from the entrance to report for duty.  It started raining. The ramp had enough width so that there had been no scope for any collision on it.

Both scooters came at a high speed at each other like predators. The woman lost her nerves when she saw another vehicle coming straight at her. Her vehicle zigzagged. The rider of the other vehicle had no chance. The vehicles collided. Both riders fell off and were injured. The crowd that had gathered on hearing the collision found the woman off the scooter whereas the man was underneath his vehicle.

The crowd was chivalrous. The woman had injuries. She was immediately packed off in an auto rickshaw to the Hospital. There was no one to even look at the man who had also been injured. The commotion brought Ashwin who was jogging in the vast campus of the Airport to the scene. Ashwin, with the help of another onlooker, managed to extricate the man who was profusely bleeding from beneath the scooter and rushed him to the General Hospital.

Ashwin waited at the General Hospital till the injured was taken care of. Later he took the injured man to his residence at Valiathura. The young man was grateful and had requested his benefactor to have a tea at home. Ashwin shrugged and went off.

Ashwin Abraham runs an export firm ‘Cholakath Exports’.  He turned to export business after a stint in IT companies. In order to keep himself fit he would either jog or play football or exercise at the gym.

He donates blood for patients in intervals. In case he has not completed the interval and if someone is in urgent need he makes it a point to get someone to help the patient.

Ashwin Abraham is available at 9645964814.