By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Commissionerate Police supplied inexperienced hall to Surat Municipal Commissioner and Odia IAS officer Banchhanidhi Pani’s ailing father Indramani Pani from SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack to Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) within the capital.
Cuttack Urban Police District’s (UPD) pilot car and a Traffic Wing’s van escorted the ambulance carrying Indramani and left from SCB Medical at about 9.48 pm on Friday. The escort reached Hanspal, which comes beneath Bhubaneswar UPD’s Traffic Wing, at about 10.05 pm.
Cuttack UPD’s pilot car and Bhubaneswar’s Traffic Wing car then facilitated the unhindered motion of the ambulance and reached BPIA at round 10.17 pm.
All the visitors posts between Hanspal and BPIA had been alerted concerning the inexperienced hall supplied to the critically ailing Indramani, who was airlifted to Surat in Gujarat in an air ambulance which was outfitted with life assist system with inotropic medication.
Commissionerate Police took the shortest attainable path to BPIA by way of Hanspal, Palasuni, Vani Vihar, Acharya Vihar, Jaydev Vihar service street, 120 Infantry Battalion, Rabindra Mandap Square, AG Square and Capital Hospital Square.
“Normally, it takes about an hour from Cuttack to Bhubaneswar airport due to the rush and traffic posts/signals. However, the patient in critical condition was shifted to the airport within 29 minutes as a green corridor was provided immediately,” stated Bhubaneswar Traffic ACP Swastik Panda.
Bhubaneswar police had confronted extreme criticism in February, 2020, as a 13-km stretch from Capital Hospital to KIMS allegedly took an ambulance an hour and a half, lengthy sufficient to snuff out the lifetime of a five-year-old child who was in dire want of emergency medical consideration.
