"Did Not Give Up Hope": AIIMS Doctors Who Saved Child's Life Mid-Air
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Five doctors from Delhi are being hailed as heroes today after they saved a child's life during a mid-air medical emergency on board a Vistara Airlines flight from Bengaluru.
Five doctors from Delhi are being hailed as heroes today after they saved a child's life during a mid-air medical emergency on board a Vistara Airlines flight from Bengaluru. The five - from Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences - were alerted to a two-year cyanotic female child returning from Bengaluru after undergoing open-heart surgery and spent a frantic 45 minutes repeatedly reviving the young girl, and ensuring she was alive and breathing by the time the flight was diverted to Nagpur. #Always available #AIIMSParivarWhile returning from ISVIR- on board Bangalore to Delhi flight today evening, in Vistara Airline flight UK-814- A distress call was announcedIt was a 2 year old cyanotic female child who was operated outside for intracardiac repair , was… pic.twitter.com/crDwb1MsFM
NDTV spoke to one of the five doctors, Dr Damandeep Singh, on board that flight for an insight into what happened and the stressful situation that erupted less than half-an-hour after take-off.
"We were coming back from Bengaluru to Delhi after attending a conference. We boarded at 9 pm and were scheduled to land around midnight. However, around 30 minutes into the flight there was a distress call... we (the five doctors on board) had a cyanotic child who had had open-heart surgery in Bengaluru. The child was unconscious and had no pulse... so we isolated her," Dr Singh told NDTV.
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