A senior gynaecologist recently stabilized a fellow passenger in need of urgent medical attention 32,000 feet above sea level on a flight from Delhi to Mumbai.

Dr Niranjan Chavan, obstetrician and gynaecologist at Sion hospital and president of the Mumbai Obstetrics & Gynaecological Society, told mid-day, “On December 17, I was travelling in an Air Vistara UK957 Delhi to Mumbai flight. At 9.30 pm, the air hostess announced thrice, ‘Is there a doctor on the flight? We have a medical emergency’.”