A 67-year-old woman with a critical heart condition was airlifted from Portland in the United States to Chennai in a 26-hour long flight, which became one of the longest aero-medical evacuations to India.
According to a report, the woman could not be identified but that she was getting treated in Portland in that country.
However, her family, with whom she was staying in Oregon, decided to bring her to the Apollo hospital in Chennai for a heart surgery. The airlift cost the family $133,000 (a little over ₹1 crore), the report said. The family used an air ambulance flight service called ICATT that is Bengaluru-based and is equipped with an ICU.
