Doctors onboard Bengaluru-Delhi flight miraculously save baby girl

It looked like the doctors were god-sent to save the baby onboard a Bengaluru-Delhi flight.

A one-and-half-year-old baby girl had stopped breathing and fallen unconscious after half-an-hour after the flight took off from Bengaluru in which the baby along with her parents were travelling.

Following the incident, a crew member onboard made a distress call. Luckily, five doctors who were onboard the same flight responded and helped in saving baby.

According to doctors, the baby girl had suffered from a cyanotic condition and her skin color had turned bluish and mucous membranes due to deficiency of oxygen in her blood. Doctors who examined her, saved her miraculously despite there being no any facilities to treat her condition onboard the flight.

As there was no ECG/oxygen saturation probe available to monitor the heart rate and saturation of the baby, the pilot was requested to immediately land at the nearest airport. The plane was landed at Nagpur that was just 20 minutes away. The baby was then handed over to the pediatrician who had arrived at the airport in an ambulance. The baby was handed over with stable heamodynamic parameters. The baby could be saved with timely help from doctors onboard the flight.

These doctors were senior residents of AIIMS and were returning Delhi after attending a two-day conference of the Indian Society for Vascular and Interventional Radiology in Bengaluru.

The doctors onboard this flight were Dr Navdeep Kaur, Dr Oishika Chakraborty, Dr Avichala Taxak, Dr Damandeep Singh and Dr Rishabh Jain.

UK-814 flight had taken off from Bengaluru at 9 pm on August 27, and was scheduled to arrive at the Delhi airport at 11.45pm.