An Indian woman in need of emergency surgery was flown from the United States to India this week with an aeromedical evaluation in recent years.
The 26-hour flight stopped three times on the way. He stopped once in Iceland and twice in Turkey before arriving in the Indian city of Chennai.
The woman is now waiting for the surgery at Chennai Apollo Hospital. A hospital spokesperson said his condition is stable, BBC India reported.
In the United States, he was in intensive care with a heart valve problem. The family has been in contact with their cardiologist, Dr. Sai Satish, since July. Hospital officials said they went to the hospital to have a heart valve repaired.
The 67-year-old woman, whose identity has not yet been revealed, was in Portland with her children when she had the problem.
The family felt it would be best to treat her at home and called the International Critical Care Air Transport Team. This is an air ambulance service based in Bangalore, South India, to which the lady belongs.
According to the co-founder and director of ICATT, they used two planes to reduce refueling and maintenance times to bring the woman to Chennai.
Dr Nalud says the flight time broke the company’s previous record of an eighteen-hour flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Chennai with a cancer patient. The flight took place during the COVID-19 lockdown, when flight services were disrupted.
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