Malappuram: An ambulance carrying a seven-day-old infant in a very serious condition is rushing from MES Hospital, Perinthalmanna to Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) in Kochi.
A call has been issued to motorists using the roads between the two places to give way to the ambulance with registration number K L 02 BD 8296, which has ICU and NICU facilities.
The infant has a heart problem and is under life support with the help of a ventilator. RBSK (Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram), an initiative under the National Health Mission, is carrying out the shift to Amrita Hospital as part of the ‘Hridyam’ programme.
The ambulance left MES Hospital around 4.15 pm on Thursday.
In April, an ambulance rushed from Mangaluru to Kochi with a seriously ill infant in the record time.
Though the plan was to take the infant, who needed emergency heart surgery, to Sri Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Science and Technology in the state capital, with the intervention of Health minister K K Shailaja arrangements were made to provide the treatment at Amrita Hospital in Kochi.
Later that month, another ambulance managed to cover the distance between Malappuram and Thiruvananthapuram in five hours to save an infant.
Each moment is critical. On both occasions, members of the public cordoned off the roads at the right time to allow the ambulance to pass without having to waste time navigating through traffic.
Hridyam authorities have requested everyone for a similar effort.
