PTI, ITANAGAR: In a humanitarian gesture, Arunachal Pradesh Governor Brig B D Mishra (Retd) took a woman, who was in urgent need of medical attention, in his helicopter from Tawang to a hospital here, Raj Bhawan sources said.
When the chopper developed a snag after refuelling at Tezpur, the governor requisitioned an Indian Air Force helicopter and let the woman and her husband leave first for the Arunachal Pradesh capital. He returned later in another chopper.
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 Thursday.
At the Heema Hospital here, the patient underwent a successful emergency cesarean delivery.
The distance between Tawang and Itanagar is over 200 kilometre by road in the hilly terrain and it takes around 15 hours. But by air, it is around two hours.
