Air-Ambulances: Flying To Your Rescue On Highways

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is working on an ambi- tious plan to start an air-ambu- lance service and set up heli- pads on all highways emanat- ing from Delhi for airlifting acci- dent victims to nearest hospi- tals or trauma centres.

As a precursor, it has kicked off a massive exercise of iden- tifying locations where the heli- pads can be built.

Three helipads have been proposed between Gurgaon and Kishangarh (Rajasthan) on the National Highway No. 8 -- one in Haryana and two in Rajasthan.

Other national highways ema- nating from Delhi are NH-1 (meandering through Kundli, Sonepat), NH-2 (Faridabad), NH-10 (Bahadurgarh) and NH- 24 (Ghaziabad ).

Helipads would be set up at a distance of 100 kms on these high-speed roads.

Urban stretches such as Gurgaon Expressway that already have a number of good quality hospitals all along it have not been in- cluded in the plan, NHAI officials said.

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