| Due to poor medical facilities in remote areas, | | | | decision is made and if the airport suggested is |
| national parks & reserves and war torn | | | | unsafe then you are advised on the alternate well |
| areas where there has been political instability and | | | | in advance to enable you arrange for road |
| insurance companies have taken the measure of | | | | transport up to the serviceable airport or airstrip. |
| ensuring that they provide a comprehensive | | | | Before the aircraft is dispatched confirmation of |
| service. These services are included in insurance | | | | payment will have to be made as payment has |
| travel and there is need for you to be covered | | | | to be made before the flight. If an insurance |
| comprehensively including the geographical areas | | | | company is paying then the card number with full |
| you will be travelling. It is essential when you | | | | details to be given and an approval from the |
| intend to change your itinerary to inform your | | | | insurance company for the flight to be officially |
| insurance company to include the new destination | | | | finalized. |
| so that incase of emergency it will not be a | | | | Air Ambulance Flights |
| problem in being airlifted and admitted to a well | | | | This is a fully equipped hospital in the aircraft |
| equipped hospital and if the condition worsens | | | | which all the essential medical machines, equipment |
| then you can be flown in an air ambulance a | | | | and qualified doctors and nurses are assigned |
| broad or to amore advanced and well equipped | | | | duties and they should be current in Intensive |
| hospital with doctors who are experts with your | | | | Care Unit procedures and conversant with the |
| condition and suffering. | | | | patient disease or conditions. This is an aircraft |
| These services are segmented as below, | | | | with two pilots who have also undergone |
| Emergency & Medical Evacuation Flights | | | | emergency training procedures and meet the |
| This is usually essential for organizations operating | | | | international standards and are aware of what to |
| in war torn areas and anytime war can broke out | | | | do when the doctor instructs them about the |
| and thus need to have an emergency evacuation | | | | patient's condition whether is to fly low or high. |
| plan for the staff. They can engage an air charter | | | | Anyone travelling for business, leisure or on |
| company who will have an aircraft and pilot | | | | holiday in remote areas, national parks or |
| stand-by incase of such situation. All you need to | | | | reserves should obtain the travel insurance |
| do engage an aircraft charter company and enter | | | | including hospitalization as you might not have cash |
| into an agreement that always they should be a | | | | but the card will be accepted from a reputable |
| stand-by aircraft and crew and also have | | | | insurance company. You might be doing a tour |
| emergency contacts like cellphones, High | | | | by road to Masai Mara then an accident occur you |
| Frequency Radio frequency numbers and the | | | | can not rely to use vehicle to driving all the way |
| contact person when such situation arises. You will | | | | to Nairobi where there are good hospital like Aga |
| also have to know the serviceability and state of | | | | Khan,Mater,Nairobi,Karen,MP Shah among others. |
| the airstrip or airport next to your base so that a | | | | Organizations working in war torn countries like |
| suitable aircraft is identified to a void question | | | | Somalia, South Sudan, Darfur, Afghanistan, DR |
| asking when an emergency flight is supposed to | | | | Congo should have emergency preparedness plan |
| be dispatched as it will be time consuming and it | | | | as it may happen the war breaks out and the |
| might result to a disaster. In other cases a | | | | staff is shoot and a bullet is lodged in the chest |
| country at war can declare a state of emergency | | | | then there is need for an air ambulance to fly the |
| and order some organization to quit within hours | | | | patient to a good hospital in Kenya, South Africa |
| thus the need for an emergency preparedness | | | | or abroad. The following equipments are always |
| plan especially when operating in such areas. | | | | on board the air ambulance, Reclining Stretcher, |
| Medical Evacuation plan has to be put in order as | | | | Mechanical Ventilator, Cardiac Monitor, Defibrillator, |
| your base might be invaded at night and your | | | | Infusion Pump, Blood Pressure Machine, |
| staff are injured and you can only get first-aid | | | | Laryngoscope and Blades, Vacuum Mattress, |
| and the specialist in may be bullet removal and | | | | Sager Splint, Spinal Board, Scoop Stretcher, |
| surgery is miles away then they have to be | | | | Glucometer, Electrical Suction Machine, Medivac |
| airlifted thus a need to take a private charter to | | | | Case Bags, Fixed Oxygen Cylinder, Portable |
| be able to take them to a well equipped hospital. | | | | Oxygen Cylinder, Diagonostic Set and Hard |
| Some might be not in a position to sit and need a | | | | Cervical Collars. The aircraft used are the Citation |
| stretcher and even a doctor and nurse on board | | | | Bravo550Jet, Beechcraft 1900 pressurized, Beech |
| to give them some treatment before they reach | | | | craft 200 Superkingair 200 pressurized. The |
| the hospital with experts .There are air charter | | | | Helicopter is used for air ambulance in bushes and |
| companies providing this services and they have | | | | on the slope of mountains. There are 24 hours call |
| joined synergies with medical firms to be able to | | | | centre with high frequency radios, very high |
| carry this operation professionally and successfully. | | | | frequency radios, mobile phones, satellite phones, |
| There is a medical director to take the details of | | | | landlines, fax and internet facilities which facilitates |
| the patients and to establish which medical | | | | deployment of an aircraft for air ambulance. |
| equipment and medicines to carry and which | | | | Life saving has become more efficient and reliable |
| doctor to assign to this operations.Thereafter he | | | | in the air other than relying on ground hospital to |
| gives the information to the flight operations | | | | do so. All the required medical attention can be |
| director the details of the flight that is airport so | | | | transferred from ground to air and patients have |
| that a safety decision could be made on which | | | | not to worry when and where he/she is being |
| aircraft to deploy for this operations. Once a | | | | taken for medical attention. |