With infant's life in balance, ambulance races across Kerala

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This is Thameem. The Ambulance Driver who drove 518 kms in 6 hours from northern tip of Kerala to the Southern end. The ambulance was taking a 57 day old baby from Pariyaram Medical College (Kannur) to SCT Hospital (Trivandrum). The ambulance reached SCT at 03:15am morning..

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"If you say no, nothing will happen, the day will pass like just any other day. But a yes from you may create history, which will encourage many others to follow you and say yes."

This is the dialogue from 2011, Malayalam movie Traffic, which was later remade in Hindi in 2016.. The exact scenes of the movie was recreated in real life on Wednesday night when the whole state came together for help..

The baby who was admitted to Kannur Pariyaram Medical College was to be shifted to Sri Chitra Institute in Thiruvananthapuram. Given the critical condition and tender age of the child, air ambulance option was ruled out and the only way left was via road. SCT is one of the top most Govt. Hospital in the country which is specialized in Cardiac cases.. The hospital only takes referral cases.

The 31-day-old baby, Fathima Laiba, admitted at Pariyaram Medical College, Kannur, needed urgent heart surgery and her family got an appointment at Sri Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology (SCT), Thiruvananthapuram for the next day. The ambulance, with the registration number KL 14 L 4247, was called from Kasargod and started the journey at 08:23 pm from Pariyaram. Not just Thamim and the police, the public too geared up to make a success of this delicate mission. The trip was supported by the organisation ‘Child Protect Team’, and members of the public on social media spread the word far and wide about clearing the path for the ambulance’s passage through Kerala’s narrow roads. Kerala Police made an appeal to the public to co-operate with the effort and avoid any obstruction on the ambulance’s route. Facebook messages helped people avoid obstructing the roads through which the ambulance would pass through. With a police pilot, an ambulance ICU and two Innova cars of the highway police team escorting the ambulance from Kannur, things became smoother. Child Protect Team gave out the location of the ambulance through Whatsapp and facebook using the GPS connected to the vehicle. peeding through cleared roads in an effort for which seemingly scores of people of the state of Kerala joined hands, the ambulance was able to reach its destination in record time of six hours and 45 minutes. The only stop made was for food and fuel at Kozhikode for 10 minutes.
The ambulance reached the Sri Chithira Thirunal Institute by 3:23 am on Thursday without any hassles.


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These are times you feel proud of being a Keralite.... Nd this is one such moment for me..

Ambulance driver covers Kannur-Thiruvananthapuram 508 km in 6 hours 45 minutes to save 31-day old baby
 
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