Thane-Mumbai green corridor set up, patient flown to Hyderabad

A green corridor was on Friday operationalised between the Kashimira area of Thane district and Vile Parle in Mumbai to help airlift a critical patient to Hyderabad, a police official said.

The no-obstruction traffic corridor of 23 kilometers was set up after a request came in from a local hospital at 7 am, and the ambulance carrying the patient covered the distance in 35 minutes between 9:10 am and 9:45 am, the Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) police official said.

''The flight carrying the patient, who needed an urgent liver operation, took off from a Pawan Hans facility in Vile Parle at 10:05 am and it reached Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad in Telangana at 11:40 am,'' he said.