Arunachal Pradesh Governor takes pregnant woman in his own chopper to hospital

In a humanitarian gesture, Arunachal Pradesh Governor Brig (Retd) BD Mishra took a woman, who was in urgent need of medical attention, in his helicopter from Tawang to a hospital in Itanagar, Raj Bhawan sources said Thursday.
And, when the chopper developed a snag after refuelling at Tezpur, the Governor requisitioned an Air Force helicopter and let the woman and her husband leave first for the capital city. He returned later in another aircraft.
Not stopping at that, Mishra also arranged for an ambulance with a lady gynaecologist at the Raj Bhawan helipad at Itanagar to take the pregnant patient to hospital without losing time, the sources said.
At the Heema Hospital in Itanagar, the patient underwent a successful emergency caesarean delivery.
The distance between Tawang and Itanagar is over 200 km by road in the hilly terrain and it takes around 15 hours. But by air, it is around two hours.

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