Karnataka / Bengaluru woman with critical heart ailment airlifted from US to Chennai in 26 hours

Karnataka | A 67-year-old woman suffering from serious heart ailment was airlifted from Portland, USA to Chennai in 26 hours. This is the longest case of aero-medical evacuation in India. According to the report, the woman has not been identified. The woman was undergoing treatment in Portland, USA. However, his family members wanted to undergo heart surgery at a hospital in Chennai, so he was airlifted after spending more than one crore.

brought in like this

The aircraft that brought the woman was ICU equipped. The woman was brought to Chennai by two private planes. First he was brought from Portland to Turkey in Istanbul and then from here to Chennai. The medical team aboard the first private jet consisted of three doctors and two paramedics staff. The plane took seven and a half hours to reach Reykjavik Airport in Iceland from Portland. Here it took the first stop. After refueling here, the plane took the second stop in Istanbul, where the medical and aviation crew were replaced. During this, a doctor from Bangalore was on board the plane from America to monitor the patient.

So India had to bring

The woman was shifted to another private jet in Turkey. After taking off from here, the plane reached Diyarbakir Airport in Turkey in four hours. After this the plane took off for Chennai on Tuesday morning. The patient on the plane was immediately sent to the hospital in an ambulance, where preparations for his surgery are going on. According to the information, the process of heart surgery in America took a lot of time. Apart from this, the money involved in this was more than being airlifted to India. So the family decided to get the woman treated in Chennai.