The Russian Emergency Ministry has sent today its Antonov An-148 plane to evacuate a seriously-ill patient from the town of Nadym to the city of Tyumen.

The patient is 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 module, which allow providing medical aid to the patient onboard.

During the flight the patient will 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 Tyumen the patient is going to be transported to the a hospital where the patient will get high-tech and highly-qualified medial aid.