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.
Additional SP (Cachar) Jagdish Das said it took 20 minutes to reach the airport, nearly 30 km from here. Green corridor was necessary in view of traffic snarl in this southern Assam town, he added.
Family sources, however, said the patient succumbed to his ailments in the evening after he was admitted to AMRI hospital in Kolkata.