Emergency landing saves Bangladeshi child's life
Pallab Bhattacharya, New Delhi
A Bangalore-bound flight of India's biggest private carrier Jet Airways returned to NSC Bose International Airport in Kolkata after being in the air for 20 minutes to save the life of a Bangladeshi child who is suffering from congenital heart problem. Twenty-day-old Abdur Rahman had turned blue when the plane landed under emergency conditions at the airport on Monday. The child was wheeled out of the aircraft into a waiting ambulance and rushed to a nursing home near the airport where he was resuscitated. Later, he was shifted to Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences. The plane was in midair when the baby suffered spasms and was having difficulty breathing. He turned blue due to lack of oxygen. The cabin crew alerted the pilot who, in turn, contacted the air traffic control at Kolkata airport and turned the plane back for landing. The child's father Abu Sahem said he was taking his son to renowned cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty at Narayana Hrudaylaya in Bangalore. As shifting the child at this stage to Bangalore would be risky, doctors in the Kolkata hospital decided to carry out a surgery on him.
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