PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/Dehradun
The successful test landing of a helicopter at Amrita Hospital at Faridabad in Haryana marks the final validation of the helipad’s structural design, aviation safety systems, approach and landing parameters and end-to-end patient transfer readiness. With this confirmation, the elevated helipad is now operational and ready to support day VFR (Visual Flight Rules) air-ambulance movements, enabling rapid transfer of critically ill and trauma patients directly from helicopter touchdown into emergency units, operating theatres, and intensive care facilities.
Amrita Hospital, Faridabad has received formal operational clearance from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for its rooftop helipad. The helipad is a 28-metre-diameter facility with a load-bearing capacity of up to 5,700 kg is the largest operational hospital helipad in India and among the very few fully functional helipads in North India.
Then hospital’s administrative director Swami Nijamritananda Puri said, “From the very inception of Amrita Hospital, Faridabad, the vision was to embed emergency readiness into the campus design. Located along major high-speed corridors, the rooftop helipad allows us to extend advanced trauma and critical care across a 300–400 km radius, where time is the single most decisive factor,” he said.
The hospital’s medical director Dr Sanjeev Singh said, “In emergency and critical care medicine, every avoidable delay has consequences. With the successful test landing confirmed and the helipad now operational, we are fully equipped to receive patients directly from air ambulances and initiate definitive treatment immediately—particularly in trauma, stroke, cardiac emergencies, high-risk maternal cases, neonatal care, and complex surgical conditions and for organ sharing network.”
