Critical patient flown 23 hours from US to Chennai for medical treatment
A 67-year-old critically ill woman was being treated at Chennai’s Apollo Hospital on Wednesday, after 23 tense hours in an air ambulance that flew her from Portland in the United States to the Tamil Nadu capital with stops in Reykjavik and Istanbul.
It is the longest medical transfer that the International Critical-Care Air Transfer Team has undertaken, said ICAAT’s Shalini Nalwad who supervised the complex evacuation that cost about Rs 1 crore.
The woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, was treated in Chennai by Apollo Hospital’s senior interventional cardiologist Dr Sai Satish and a team of doctors on arrival in the city, sources told PTI.
