An Emergency Ministry’s Antonov An-148 plane has taken off today from the Ramenskoye airport to transport a seriously-ill man from the city of Grozny, Chechnya to Moscow.
The patient is in grave condition and in need of urgent highly-qualified medical aid.
The An-148 carrying out the medical evacuation, is rigged up with modern equipment and a special medical module, medical ventilation apparatus and cardiomonitors which allow providing medical aid to patients onboard.
During the flight the patient is going to be accompanied by medical personnel of the Emergency Ministry’s Tsentrospas team, All-Russian Disaster Medicine Center Zasahchita of the Russian Healthcare Ministry and a psychologist of the Emergency Ministry’s Center for Emergency Psychological Aid.
Once in Moscow the patient will be taken to the Academician Burdenko Neurosurgical Research Institute.











