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.