A Russian Emergency Ministry has sent today its Antonov An-148 plane to evacuate three seriously-ill babies the city of Rostov-on-Don to Saint Petersburg. The patients are in urgent need of highly-qualified and high-tech medical aid.

The Emergency Ministry’s flying hospital 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 and All-Russian Disaster Medicine Center Zashchita of the Russian Healthcare Ministry, as well as a psychologist of the Emergency Ministry’s Center for Emergency Psychological Aid.

Once in Saint Petersburg the patients are going to be transported to the A.V. Almazov Northwestern Federal Medical Research Center.