A PASSENGER suffering acute pancreatitiswas prevented from flying on Saturday by the Shanghai Airport Authority,
The 25-year-old student arrived at the Hongqiao airport from Changsha in central China to take a flight to Doha. Vomiting, and with a high temperature he was met by an ambulance on the tarmac at Hongqiao, but refused to go to hospital and proceeded to the Pudong airport to catch his connecting flight.The passenger was finally persuaded and taken to Pudong People’s Hospital, where he was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis which has a death rate of over 50 percent.His condition has since improved.