Cauvery unrest: Karnataka doctors walk to Tamil Nadu to save patient's life
Synopsis
The patient was ferried over to the Tamil Nadu border in a wheelchair. The 55-year-old diabetic patient had been waiting for the last two years for a transplant.
Amidst of the violence in the state kicked up by the Cauvery dispute, a team of Karnataka doctors from Bengaluru crossed over to the Tamil Nadu border on foot to save a patient's life.
According to the Times of India report, the team of doctors from Bengaluru decided to take the risk and cross over to Tamil Nadu for a 55-year-old diabetic patient, who has been waiting for a donor for the last two years.
The Bengaluru doctors were informed that they had a donor available in Salem in Tamil Nadu.
A. Olithselvan, the doctor who took the call to ferry the patient to Tamil Nadu, told TOI that the four-hour long journey from Bengaluru to Salem, "seemed like an eternity, a travel across two nations."
The team left Bengaluru at 1 am at night on Karnataka registered ambulance and after nearing border, the doctors then ferried the patient over to the other side in a wheelchair where a Tamil Nadu registered ambulance was waiting for them.
The transplant took place later in the evening and the patient is now recovering.