• Source:ANI
Add as a preferred

In a humanitarian mission, the Indian Air Force deployed its Dornier aircraft to airlift a team of doctors from Army Hospital (R&R), to retrieve a liver from Pune to Delhi during the night on 23 February to save the life of a veteran, as reported by news agency ANI.

Taking to X, formerly Twitter, the IAF said, "An IAF Dornier aircraft was activated at short notice to airlift a team of doctors of Army Hospital (R&R), to retrieve a liver from Pune to Delhi during the night on 23 Feb 24. The subsequent transplant surgery helped save the life of a Veteran."

Army Hospital (Research And Referral), also known as Army Hospital (R&R), is the armed forces' premier medical care facility, where personnel associated with the armed forces and their family members receive treatment.

Earlier in January thai year, AIIMS Bhubaneswar also launched a drone service for the delivery of medicines, and other essential items. The drone carried one unit of blood for a needy patient at the Tangi Community Health Centre (CHC) in the Khurda district, covering a distance of  60 kilometres in just 35 minutes.

The drone reportedly transported one unit of blood from AIIMS Bhubaneswar to Tangi CHC for transfusion in an anaemic pregnant woman. This marked the first-ever drone-assisted blood delivery not only in Odisha but across the country, the institute said in a statement.