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This will allow patients in serious condition to be transported faster to hospitals in Ukraine and abroad, as well as to transport donor organs for transplantation.
Emergency medical evacuation of patients by aircraft of the State Emergency Service will resume in Ukraine. The Cabinet of Ministers approved the procedure for organizing such transports, defining who will decide on the flight, coordinate the route, and provide medical supervision, the DSNS reported.
The new mechanism is intended primarily to help people in critical condition, for whom every hour, and sometimes even a minute, can be decisive. The main goal of restoring air evacuation is to reduce the time of transporting patients when road travel by car is too long, complex, or dangerous for their health. By air, people will be transported between Ukrainian hospitals, and also to treatment abroad.
Health Minister Viktor Liashko emphasized that the new approach will significantly speed up the evacuation of the injured. According to him, the current road from Kharkiv or Vinnytsia to the evacuation hub in the Polish city of Rzeszów can take at least 12 hours. By plane, this route can be covered in 2–3 hours.
"Restoration of air medical evacuation will allow us to gain the most valuable thing in the fight for life of patients in critical condition – time," the minister noted.
It is expected that the mechanism will be operational by the end of the year. At the same time, aircraft will be able to cross the state border and deliver people directly to an evacuation hub. This is especially important for Ukrainians who were wounded in the war and are receiving treatment in European clinics under the Medevac Ukraine program.
The new procedure provides not only for transporting patients. DSNS aircraft will also be able to be involved in transporting donor organs when ground delivery takes too long. In particular, this concerns a donor heart if the journey lasts more than two hours, as well as a liver or lungs if transport takes more than five hours. If necessary, the plane will also carry medical teams who extract anatomical materials from a person, together with the necessary equipment.
The organization and coordination of evacuation will be handled by the Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Center for Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health. It will interact with hospitals, DSNS and other participants in the process. Rescue services, in turn, will provide the aircraft and crew, as well as assess the possibility of a flight considering security conditions and weather.
DSNS reported that since the introduction of this approach they have conducted more than 3700 evacuations.
Earlier, Ukrainian rescuers received from Germany more than 20 units of modern equipment and gear. The total value of the new aid package is 5,7 million euros.
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