An Ilyushin Il-76 plane owned by the Russian Emergency Ministry has taken off today from Zhukovsky airport to carry out medical evacuation of 16 seriously-ill people, including one adult and 15 children from Rostov-on-Don to Saint Petersburg and Moscow/. The evacuation is being carried out in conjunction with Just Help of Doctor Liza Foundation.

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 were accompanied by medical specialists of the Emergency Ministry’s Tsentrospas team, of the Healthcare Ministry’s All-Russian Disaster Medicine Center Zashchita and a psychologist of the Emergency Ministry’s Center for Psychological Aid.

7 of the patients were delivered to hospitals in Saint Petersburg and the rest 14 to hospitals in Moscow.