Army’s Chinar Corps warriors conducted a swift emergency evacuation of an ailing lady, Sardar Beewa from the snowbound Jabri village of Baramulla district, to primary health care (PHC) centre in Boniyar on Friday.
According to a defence spokesman, in the early morning hours, the Army detachment at Paro proactively acted on a distress call from Mir Mohammad, a resident of the remote Jabri village, who desperately sought an evacuation of his 80-year old wife, who was suffering from severe fever, vomiting and abdominal pain.
Jabri Village, is located along a steep gradient, from which evacuation during heavy snow fall is challenging indeed. The Chinar Corps warriors, walked through knee deep snow and reached the spot.
They carried the ailing lady on their back, to minimise injury to the patient, due to mountainous nature of tracks, steep gradient involved and heavy snow fall conditions.
On reaching Paro, the lady was swiftly shifted to a waiting Army ambulance and successfully evacuated to the primary health cntre, Boniyar. Meanwhile, the State Disaster Management Authorities have advised the people in the hilly areas not to venture out of their houses because of threat of avalanches.