The ambulance reached the Silchar airport, 30 km away, in about 20 minutes
SILCHAR: Police in Silchar facilitated a “green corridor” from a private hospital in the city to the airport for a Covid patient, who had to be shifted to Kolkata in an air ambulance.
Following a request in this regard from the District Disaster Management Authority, superintendent of police (Cachar) Bhanwar Lal Meena and his team prepared the ‘green corridor’ for transporting the patient from Green Heals Hospital in Meherpur locality of the town to Silchar Airport at Kumbhirgram at 2.10 pm.
The convoy of vehicles, including the ambulance carrying the 32-year-old patient, reached the airport where the air ambulance was waiting to shift him to a hospital in Kolkata.
Green corridor, airlift did not help to save businessman Istiak Rasool Mazumdar, passed away in Kolkata
33-year-old businessman Istiak Rasool Mazumdar had tested positive for covid-19 and was critically ill. He was admitted at Green Heals Hospital in Meherpur
| 23 Dec 2020 5:03 PM GMT
Silchar: Businessman Istiak Rasool Mazumdar passed away in Kolkata today. Initially, he was admitted to Green Heals Hospital in Silchar after he had tested positive for COVID-19. His condition had deteriorated and the family decided to transfer him to Kolkata for better treatment. A green corridor was established to take him to Khumbirgram Airport.
He is the son of retired Joint Director Health- Hailakandi, Dr. Abed Rasool Mazumdar. Istiak is 33-years-old and was critically ill, according to the hospital officials, due to which the green corridor was requested as airlifting was arranged for him.