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Kolkata: Sushma Swaraj offers to help German patient

| | Mar 27, 2017, at 12:34 am
Kolkata/New Delhi, Mar 26 (IBNS): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has once again come out to help a foreign national facing trouble in India.

Holzer Dieter Siegeried was cured of a lung disease at a hospital in Kolkata and now awaiting to return to his country.

Following a plea on social media to help the person return to his nation, Swaraj offered to help the German national.

A netizen, who Twitter handle is named BarbieGiri, posted: "79 yr old German patient, can't speak English, cured & fit to discharge now. No one to pick him up. Details below. Help? @SushmaSwaraj."

Following the appeal, Swaraj tweeted: "We are taking this up with the German Embassy."

 

Image: BarbieGiri Twitter page

 

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