Sushma helping out German patient in Kolkata hospital

New Delhi March 26 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday offered to help a German patient who was cured of a lung disease in a Kolkata hospital to return home following a plea on social media.

Holzer Dieter Siegeried 79 who was brought to the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata with a lung disease has been cured and is now awaiting his return to Germany.

Siegeried does not speak English and an appeal on Twitter said that the German Embassy has been informed but no one has come to receive him.

79 yr old German patient can t speak English cured & fit to discharge now. No one to pick him up. Details below. Help? @BarbieGiri tweeted.

According to the message the German Embassy in New Delhi has been informed about Siegried but no one has come to receive him.

It would be great if we can reach the embassy or some NGO to assist him back home in Germany it stated.

To this Sushma Swaraj tweeted: We are taking this up with the German Embassy.

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