The presence of five doctors onboard a Vistara flight from Bengaluru to Delhi and their timely intervention saved the life of a two-year-old passenger who had stopped breathing mid-air.
A team of five doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi who were returning after attending a conference in Bengaluru upon receiving a distress call on the flight came to the rescue of the two-year old girl. ”While returning from ISVIR onboard Bangalore to Delhi flight today evening, in Vistara Airline flight UK-814- A, distress call was announced. It was a 2-year-old cyanotic female child who was operated outside for intracardiac repair, was unconscious and cyanosed 5 Doctors from @aiims_newdelhi were onboard....Immediately child was examined - his pulse was absent, extremities were cold, child was not breathing with cyanosed lips and fingers,” AIIMS Delhi posted on its official X (formerly Twitter) social media handle.
It added that “Immediate CPR was started and with limited resources, using skilled work and active management by team
