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Emergency Ministry’s jet transports children from Rostov-on-Don to Moscow

Russian Aviaton » Monday November 14, 2016 13:50 MSK

The Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations has sent today a plane to deliver more than 500 kilos of medicine for the people in Luhansk and Donetsk regions. On its way back the plane will take aboard 12 seriously-ill children who have different diagnoses from the city of Rostov-on-Don to hospitals in the city of Moscow. The medical evacuation is being carried out in cooperation with Just Help Fund of Yelizaveta Glinka (Doctor Liza).

All of the patients are need of emergency highly-qualified and high-tech medical aid.

The Ilyushin Il-76 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 patients are going to be accompanied by medical personnel of the Emergency Ministry’s Tsentrospas team, All-Russian Disaster Medicine Center Zashchita of the Russian Healthcare Ministry and psychologists of the Emergency Ministry’s Center for Emergency Psychological Aid.

Once in Moscow all the patients will be taken to specialized medical institutions for highly-qualified and high-tech medical aid.