Senior journalist, social worker and lawyer lal Mohan Pattanaik passed away here on Monday following a cardiac arrest. He was 51 and is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
He was the Koraput district correspondent of The Pioneer and was involved in many social activities in Jeypore. He was a member of the Bright Career Academy, Jeypore.
Tributes were paid and condolence meeting was observed at the Jeypore stadium hall where members of the Jeypore and Koraput Press Club, Citizen Committee, Jeypore Sahitya Parishad condoled the sudden demise of Pattanaik.
Pattanaik had started his career as a manager in Hotel Apsara, Jeypore and later ran an NGO under which he was managing an old age home of the Jeypore Evangelical lutheran Society at lingaraj Nagar and an orphanage at Koraput and a higher education institute for tribal children at Boipariguda.
He was under medical check and treatment for experiencing pain in his left chest. On the fateful day on Monday morning he had gone to the clinic of Dr Asihishmaya Panigrahi where doctors suggested for an ECG test.
Unfortunately, he fainted at the clinic and was immediately rushed to the Jeypore Sub-Divisional Hospital where he was declared brought dead.