The Russian Emergency Ministry has sent today its Antonov An-148 plane to evacuate a seriously-ill child from the city of Makhachkala and two seriously-ill patients from the town of Nalchik to the city of Nizhny Novgorod. All of the patients are in need of urgent highly-qualified and high-tech medical aid.

The 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 were 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 Nizhny Novgorod the patients are going to be transported to the Volga Federal Medical Research Center where they will get high-tech medical aid.