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Latest News...
National Air Ambulance - Donation of A Medevac Flight
At the end of January National Air Ambulance donated a Medevac flight with our medical team onboard to transport a young boy to the U.S. who had a life threatening heart condition. It so happened that one of National's Flight Physicians was volunteering in Haiti treating quake victims. Our ER Flight Physician on scene at the makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince urgently called us to see if we could assist in an air ambulance evacuation flight for this young boy who was so critically ill. The patient had to be immediately evacuated out of Port-au-Price in the middle of that night as the Doctors felt he would not make it through another day. National made all of the arrangements for the flight with our aircraft and medical team along with securing a children's hospital in the U.S., thanks to Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, that would accept the patient, allowing him to receive life saving treatment. National would like to thank all of our medical and operational staff who helped make this charity flight possible along with those at the children's hospital that stepped in to help save this young boy's life.
Lates Update on the Above Case We are very pleased to pass along the great news that the young boy who was evacuated at the end of January has now had life saving heart surgery performed by Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital. The surgeons were able to repair the young boy's heart and he is recovering very well in the hospital. His prognosis is very good, the surgery was very successful and the outlook is bright for this young Haitian boy. Again we give our thanks to our Flight Physician who did all possible to save this young boy while he was in Haiti, to our medevac team for their great work in-flight, and to the children's hospital and the surgeons who repaired this young boy's heart.
On February 23rd NPR Radio told the story of this young boy and the efforts made by all to save his life. To see photos and read the story, just click on the following link.
http://www.theworld.org/2010/02/23/doctors-face-ethical-decisions-in-haiti/
We continue to bring cases out of Haiti each week and want to also thank our medical and flight crews for their outstanding work during this time of crisis in Haiti.
Ongoing News -
National Jets Charter, National Air Ambulance, and National Jets Air Center were all very involved in relief efforts in regards to the crisis in Haiti.
National Jets Charter phones began to ring just after the earthquake hit. Even before the International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti was open for arrivals, we were already conducting flights into the region. We flew the first network news crews into the Dominican Republic who then were transferred by helicopter to Port-au-Prince.
Immediately thereafter, National Air Ambulance began to evacuate some of the first quake victims back to the U.S. from Santo Domingo and other nearby islands. After the airport in Port-au-Prince opened, National gained the required landing slots and conducted flights for doctors from hospitals located in South Florida, transporting these life saving physicians and much needed medical equipment directly into the quake zone.
From our medical stock we donated items including a high tech Monitor / Defibrillator, sterile hospital sheets, IV kits and solutions, antiseptic, masks, gloves and other items that we knew would be needed in the makeshift ER’s being set up around Haiti’s capital city. We were also able to secure highly sought after prosthetics that were donated through a local church and were taken down to Haiti to help those quake victims. National Air Ambulance continues to fly into Port-au-Prince and surrounding airports in support of our area ER's, children’s hospitals, along with other ongoing medevac flights.
National Jets Air Center was very active with a number of relief flights operating in and out of our facility day and night taking mostly supplies and doctors to and from Haiti. In the beginning, it was sometimes difficult for these pilots, having to fly at all hours of the day or night whenever a landing slot was available in the capital city. As operations and ramp space continues to improve at the airport in Port-au-Price so has the flight support effort to move these doctors and equipment.
National will continue to lend medical and logistics support for the relief flights to and from Haiti over the coming months. For information on medevacs flights please contact us at our 24 hour hot line (954) 359-9900 or inquiry@nationalairambulance.com For those that would like to make donations to help the relief efforts in Haiti we suggest contacting the American Red Cross www.redcross.org and World Vision International www.wvi.org |
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