An Emergency Ministry’s Antonov An-148 plane has taken off today from Krasnoyarsk to airlift a Russian child from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to Moscow.
The child is now at a children’s hospital in Ho Chi Minh City and the measures taken by doctors there did not give any positive results. In order to prevent the boy from getting worse, the patient is in need of urgent highly-qualified and high-tech medical aid
The plane that is carrying out the medical evacuation, is rigged up with modern equipment and special medical modules, a medical ventilation apparatus and cardiomonitors which allow providing medical aid to the patient 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 Health Ministry’s Russian Children’s Clinical Hospital for high-tech medical aid.











