A critically ill newborn baby will board a medevac plane headed for Brisbane after she contracted a severe bacterial infection in Bali.
Seven-week-old Lucky Ahimsa has been met with pediatric team on Monday morning and is expected to board a plane to Australia later in the day.
Queensland-based Medical Rescue confirmed over the weekend that they would help the desperate family with the time sensitive operation.
The plane has a mobile intensive care unit, a retrieval physician and a specialist intensive care paediatric nurse on-board, clinical operations manager Josh Campbell told 7News.
“It’s a very delicate operation as you could imagine,” Mr Campbell said.
Upon landing, baby Lucky will be transferred to hospital.
Lucky has been on a ventilator since she arrived at the Siloam Hospital in Denpasar on Wednesday.
Doctors told the mum and her fiance Pan that their baby girl may not make it and had a 50 per cent chance of survival at best.
Honey Ahimsa, the baby’s mother, made a frantic plea for help last week after realising the Bali hospital they were in did not have the medical equipment or specialist care she would need to survive.
A GoFundMe created on behalf of the family has raised more than $190,000 to cover the cost of the medical evacuation flight and the newborns medical bills which cost the family up to $8,000 a day.
“Waiting for the clear for her to fly as she is in such an unstable state at this point,” family friend Natalie Saper wrote on the fundraising page last week.
The newborn has a severe bacterial infection that took a “serious toll on her lungs” making it difficult to breathe.
“Lucky has been given a 50/50 chance of survival and getting her on an air ambulance flight to Australia is her best chance! Please help save this beautiful baby girls life!,” she said.
Medical Rescue Director of Operations John Turley said there is a “long way to go” for Baby Lucky and the family is still very concerned about her condition.
“It’s obviously been a very stressful time for them as we can all imagine,” he told Sunrise.
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