At least five critically-injured road accident victims from Angul were airlifted here for better treatment at the SCB Medical College Hospital here. This is for the first time that road accident victims were shifted by air in the State.
The whole exercise was coordinated by the district administration keeping the nearby Aviation Research Centre (ARC) at Charbatia in loop to keep the air traffic free in this zone.
“The five critically injured patients were airlifted here in two sorties carried out by a copter each from Air Deccan and SOG of Odisha police. The helipad at the Satyabrata Stadium here was kept ready with personnel from fire brigade and eight ambulances to rush the patients to the hospital, a distance of five km from the helipad,” informed Cuttack district Collector NC Mishra. While one patient came by the Air Deccan copter, four others were airlifted by the police copter.
Besides the five airlifted, 19 other injured were also rushed to the SCB hospital by ambulances by road. Out of the injured, three are now undergoing treatment in the trauma ICU while five are in the trauma ward with multiple fractures. The conditions of the remaining are stated to be out of danger while a local patient was discharged from the hospital after first aid in the evening, informed District Emergency Officer Prabodh Rout.
Meanwhile, a team of doctors drawn from several departments is attending to all the 23 injured undergoing treatment at the SCB, informed Health Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Naik, who visited the hospital.