In a first, patient airlifted to hospital as air ambulance takes off in Pakistan
Pakistan
Forty-year old Haleema Bibi is the first person to have used the service.
LAHORE (Web Desk) - The country’s first air ambulance started working as a patient was transferred to a hospital through the service on Sunday.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz said the first air ambulance service had started working.
“We have fulfilled another promise made with the people of Punjab on the direction of Nawaz Sharif,” said the chief minister.
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Forty-year old Haleema Bibi was the first beneficiary of the service, who was airlifted from Mianwali to Rawalpindi for urgent medical treatment in the ‘Golden Hour’.
She had fallen from a roof and was critically injured.
The chief minister directed the officials to transfer her by air ambulance.
