<p>Air-ambulance service did not quite take-off in traffic choked Bengaluru due to high costs.</p>.<p>Though former Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah launched the air-ambulance service with a private player in December 2016, the government largely stayed away from partnering with the providers to expand or popularise it.</p>.<p>Dr Venkatesh A N, senior consultant and HOD, Emergency Department at Apollo Hospital, said requests to airlift patients needing emergency treatment have come down in recent times.</p>.<p>But Dr T S Satish, senior consultant and HOD, Emergency Department at Narayana Hrudayalaya said the hospital has been receiving patients from outside the state and has been requesting air-lifting of patients.</p>.<p>“We’ve a big open space behind our hospital where choppers can land. We’re receiving at least four patients who land on helicopters,” he said.</p>.<p>International Critical Care Air Transfer team (ICATT), co-founded and lead by Dr Shalini Nalwad and Dr Rahul Singh Sardar, began a highly specialized air-ambulance service, having trained in Intensive care Medicine and Aeromedical Transfers from the UK with over 15 years of experience with the National Health Service(NHS).</p>.<p>After migrating back to India nearly two-and-a-half years ago, the duo has catered to more than 20 cases of complex emergency and critical care medicine including organ transport in the state.</p>.<p>State government officials confirmed that they have not been any proposals or tie-ups from the government's end till date.</p>
<p>Air-ambulance service did not quite take-off in traffic choked Bengaluru due to high costs.</p>.<p>Though former Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah launched the air-ambulance service with a private player in December 2016, the government largely stayed away from partnering with the providers to expand or popularise it.</p>.<p>Dr Venkatesh A N, senior consultant and HOD, Emergency Department at Apollo Hospital, said requests to airlift patients needing emergency treatment have come down in recent times.</p>.<p>But Dr T S Satish, senior consultant and HOD, Emergency Department at Narayana Hrudayalaya said the hospital has been receiving patients from outside the state and has been requesting air-lifting of patients.</p>.<p>“We’ve a big open space behind our hospital where choppers can land. We’re receiving at least four patients who land on helicopters,” he said.</p>.<p>International Critical Care Air Transfer team (ICATT), co-founded and lead by Dr Shalini Nalwad and Dr Rahul Singh Sardar, began a highly specialized air-ambulance service, having trained in Intensive care Medicine and Aeromedical Transfers from the UK with over 15 years of experience with the National Health Service(NHS).</p>.<p>After migrating back to India nearly two-and-a-half years ago, the duo has catered to more than 20 cases of complex emergency and critical care medicine including organ transport in the state.</p>.<p>State government officials confirmed that they have not been any proposals or tie-ups from the government's end till date.</p>
