GoAir’s flight from Delhi to Srinagar on Saturday made an emergency landing at the Chandigarh international airport as a woman passenger developed a medical emergency. The passenger was de-boarded and after being treated at local private hospital boarded the flight to Srinagar on Sunday.
According to the airport authority, the GoAir flight that took off from Delhi at 11.30am had to make emergency landing at the Chandigarh airport around 12.15pm after a woman in her mid 40s experienced heart-related problem and her blood pressure dropped drastically.
With the contract of Fortis hospital, Mohali, ending with the Chandigarh airport for rendering medical emergency services on September 25, there is neither any permanent medical emergency service nor an ambulance available at the airport.