The US consulate has granted visa to the relations of Indian pupil Neelam Shinde who suffered critical accidents in a highway accident in California and is present process remedy, her family members stated on Friday.
Shinde remains to be in a coma at a hospital in San Francisco, however her situation has barely improved, her father stated.
A day earlier than, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs had taken up with the US authorities the household’s request for an pressing visa.
Tanaji Shinde, Neelam’s father, instructed PTI that they learnt from the medical doctors that her situation had improved.
“I obtained a telephone name from her roommate on February 16. Nonetheless, she did not inform me in regards to the accident. Later, she knowledgeable Neelam’s uncle about it. Neelam remains to be in a coma, however her situation has improved barely,” he stated.
“We went to the embassy at this time (in Mumbai). They interviewed us and granted visa inside half an hour. We’ll go away for the US tomorrow. Each the Union and Maharashtra governments helped us lots. The media additionally helped us,” Shinde stated.
“My daughter is in a coma, we will not do a lot. I solely hope she will get nicely quickly,” he added.
Yogesh Kadam, Neelam’s uncle, instructed PTI that she met with the accident on Feb. 14, however they learnt about it solely two days later.
Members of the family have been within the technique of reserving flight tickets, and they’re going to go away for the US as quickly as potential, he stated.
That they had a telephonic dialog with the medical doctors on Thursday night, and have been instructed that her situation was secure, Kadam stated.
US authorities haven’t requested them to make any cost but, and the college the place Neelam was finding out was additionally serving to to make sure that she obtained good remedy, he added.
“Her roommates instructed us that native newspapers there carried information that the Nigerian nationwide whose automobile hit her has been arrested,” Kadam stated.