AAI Provides Ambulift Facility At 14 Airports Including Bagdogra Airport To Help Flyers With Reduced Mobility

On Wednesday Ministry of Civil Aviation announced that 14 AAI Airports are now equipped with Ambulifts to facilitate flyers with reduced mobility.

The initiative was taken up by AAI under the Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan) of the Government of India to facilitate passengers with reduced mobility, Divyang passenger on wheelchairs and passengers on stretchers.

The facility is presently operational at 14 airports namely Dehradun, Gorakhpur, Patna, Bagdogra, Darbhanga, Imphal, Vijayawada, Port Blair, Jodhpur, Belgaum, Silchar, Jharsuguda, Rajkot, Hubli and remaining six are likely to be operational at Dimapur, Jorhat, Leh, Jamnagar, Bhuj & Kanpur airports by the end of this month.

According to a statement by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the ambulifts can cater to six wheelchairs & two stretchers with an attendant at a time and is fitted with Heating Ventilation & Air-Conditioning system.

Procured at a cost of Rs. 63 lakhs per unit, AAI is providing Ambulift facility at a nominal token charge to the operating airlines at its airports.

“The Government of India has been working to take forward the vision of the Sugamya Bharat Abhiyaan in order to ensure fully accessible public infrastructure, including airports, railways stations and public transport systems. This new addition of Ambulift at various AAI airports will strengthen Transportation System Accessibility, which is an important vertical of the Accessible India Campaign,” read the statement.