An Emergency Ministry’s Antonov An-148 plane carries today out a medical evacuation of four seriously ill people from Simferopol and Grozny to Nizhny Novgorod and Saint Petersburg and from Saint Petersburg to Moscow and Rostov-on-Don.

The patients are in urgent need of highly-qualified and high-tech medical aid.

The flying hospital is rigged with modern equipment and special medical modules, ventilators and cardiac monitors allowing providing medical care aboard.

During the flight the patients are going to be accompanied by medical specialists of the Emergency Ministry’s Tsentrospas Team and All-Russian Disaster Medicine Center Zashchita of the Healthcare Ministry.

Once in Nizhny Novgorod, Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Rostov-on-Don, the patients are going to be transported to specialized medical institutions.