IX 434 to Kochi ready for departure at 1245 hrs local time with 181 passengers including 75 pregnant women on board, with doctors and nurses to assist, if needed. CG Vipul and team at airport.Happy to assist.@MEAIndia @IndembAbuDhabi #VandeBharat @MoCA_GoI @MOS_MEA @DrSJaishankar pic.twitter.com/CZnJpT6xXL— India in Dubai (@cgidubai) May 16, 2020
Neeraj Agarwal, press consul at the Indian consulate told Khaleej Times that all women are over 32 weeks pregnant. "We have one woman is in the 35th week of her pregnancy. Two doctors and two nurses are on-board the flight to assist the women in case of emergencies," said Agarwal. A total of 181 passengers are on-board the flight to Kochi, said the Consul.
The phase 2 of 'Vande Bharat Mission' has officially begun on May 16 and in the following days, there will be 18 repatriation flights from the UAE to India with 13 flights to Kerala.
Agarwal called the flight a 'truly extraordinary' one as people with various and several distresses who are flying home.
"Along with pregnant women, we have 35 medical cases of which 28 are serious. This includes a patient in the last stages of cancer, one patient with a brain tumour, and two passengers who are to undergo a kidney transplant - the donor and the receiver," said Agarwal.Today flight IX434 to Kochi is very different as it carries many pregnant women, 35 medical cases, Sr citizens and few who lost their near ones, back in India.Check in and medical screening going on smoothly #Vand
The mortal remains of four-year-old Vyshnav Krishnadas, who died of leukaemia, is also on-board. "His parents will be accompanying his remains home," said Agarwal. "Two passengers who have lost their wives are also flying home - K Vijayakumar and Prasanth Prabhakaran Nair," he added.
"The mood at the airport was very sombre. The passengers were extremely stressed due to the circumstances which most of them were under," Agarwal added.— India in Dubai (@cgidubai) May 16, 2020
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