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A combined effort by police and hundreds of volunteers spread across districts, helped finish this otherwise impossible task.

It was a drive that would normally take at least 13 hours by road – from the northern Kerala district of Kannur to the southern-most district of Thiruvananthapuram. But all it took Abdul Thameem, an ambulance driver from Kasargod, was just six hours to cover the distance of over 500km.

Of course, there was plenty of motivation for Thameem to make the taxing journey as rapidly as possible, since the life of a new-born infant hung in the balance.

The 31-day-old infant, suffering from a congenital heart disease had to be transported urgently for a surgery from the Pariyaram Medical College in Kannur to the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) in the state capital. Starting off at 8.30pm on Wednesday night, Thameem's ambulance safely delivered the infant to the hospital in Thiruvanathapuram at 3.23am the next morning.

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