Injury steeled Narendra for bigger fight

AHMEDABAD: A shrapnel that lodged itself less than 2 cm away from his heart and almost killed Narendra Parmar. But, instead of instilling any fear in this selfless man, the near-death experience prompted him to help people with greater zeal.
Parmar was one of the many people who were injured in the blasts that rocked Civil Hospital on July 26 evening."Let there be 100 more blasts. I will be there helping people till I breathe my last," said Parmar , lying in an ICU bed at the Rajasthan Hospital.
Parmar, who is in his 40s, is said to have helped admit many people, including a child in the hospital after the twin-blasts ripped through the Civil Hospital parking lot, before he realised he was bleeding from the chest and legs.
"I did not notice till I was finished helping people who were injured. I noticed I was bleeding from the chest about 25 minutes after the blast," says Parmar, who had gone to Civil Hospital to drop his daughter Hetal, a second year nursing student, to her college.
Doctors say that Parmar is lucky to have escaped death by a whisker. "The shrapnel, if lodged in the heart, would have led to a fatal injury," said an attending doctor.
Parmar says that this injury has given him the strength to dedicate himself to the cause of helping others. "I am optimistic. If God has saved me, it is to help more people in dire situations," said Parmar.