Air ambulance services launched in Karnataka; Covid-19 patients can also avail aid

Air ambulance services, especially during a pandemic, are a boon to patients in remote areas where there are inadequate medical facilities. They need to reach metropolitan cities for appropriate medical care. But the cost of these flights betrays the very people it hopes to serve.

Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and the entire top brass of the Karnataka Government including two Deputy CMs, health minister, medical education minister and tourism minister inaugurated Bengaluru-based ICATT Kyathi’s integrated air ambulance services here at Jakkur Aerodrome on Tuesday.

Dubbed as South India’s first, as a part of this service, a fixed-wing aircraft (in plain English, an airplane), a helicopter and a land ambulance will be stationed at HAL Airport on Old Airport Road here for emergency shifting of critically ill patients.