Critical air hostess airlifted on word from Sonu Sood
Petlee.Peter@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru:26.04.2021
A 26-year-old Indi-Go airlines air hostess, suffering from an acute infection of Covid-19, was airlifted from Nagpur to Hyderabad by a Bengaluru-based extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) air ambulance team, which reportedly carried out the expensive flight for free on word from actor Sonu Sood.
The Bollywood star, who himself tested positive at the time of the incident, ensured the young girl from Maharashtra received timely treatment. Her condition is stable.
Sources say the staff on IndiGo’s domestic sector, from a village near Nagpur, tested positive on April 15. She comes from a lower middle class family and her father is a retired railway staff.
“As the condition of the air hostess deteriorated, she was brought to Wockhardt Hospital in Nagpur on April 18. The infection had badly damaged her lungs and she was put on ventilator support. Staff of the hospital had contacted actor Sonu Sood who got in touch with us,” said Dr Shalini Nalwad, cofounder of International Critical Care Air Transfer Team (ICATT) Foundation and Air Ambulance services, based in Bengaluru.
Realising that the woman came from an economically poor background, Nalwad along with the co-founder of ICATT, Dr Rahul Singh Sardar, took the call to provide the air ambulance service and mobile ECMO treatment worth ₹17 lakh for free. “Our team with a flying ECMO unit reached Wockhardt Hospital on Wednesday. The girl was stabilized and with assistance from ECMO equipment, she was transported by road to the Nagpur airport on Thursday morning. She was then airlifted to Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad,” Dr Nalwad said.
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