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Saving loves: Ambulance driver travels 380 km, brings ailing baby to Bengaluru in 4.5 hours

Kerala native Mohammed Haneef drove the ambulance from Mangaluru's Fr Muller Medical College Hospital (FMMCH) to Bengaluru in 4.5 hours covering 380 kilometres with the baby suffering from heart disease. The doctors said that the baby has been suffering from severe infection and will take a call on surgery after three days.
 

The 40-day-old infant, suffering from heart disease, was brought to Jayadeva Hospital in Bengaluru for treatment on Thursday from Mangaluru. The ambulance driver rushed through in just 4.5 hours. The doctors said that we would have to wait for three more days for the surgery.

The doctors at both Fr Muller Hospital in Mangaluru and Jayadeva Hospital in Bengaluru said that the efforts of the driver should be acknowledged as he zipped past with the sole intention of saving this life.

In the case of 40-day-old baby boy Saiful Azhman, his heart's pulmonary veins that carry oxygen are wrongly connected.
"This is a very rare case and we will do our best. Normally, fetal echocardiography is a test done to find out if one can continue with the pregnancy or not. Maybe the parents may not have known this earlier,"  said Dr CN Manjunath, director of Jayadeva Hospital.