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Medical Evacuation from Ulan Bator

Ambulance flights, also known as MedEvac, can be somewhat challenging.
It is the kind of ambulatory flights that are always urgent and needs to be conducted A.S.A.P.
You can never know how they are going to evolve.
Medical Evacuation cases in general and the air ambulance in particular bear in them a never ending spectrum of pop-up last minute issues that must be solved on-line.
It is one of those jobs that require complete mutual assistance between the aero medical authority (flying doctor) on one hand and the flying crew on the other hand in order to ensure a smooth operation.

Mr. Amir Ehrlich, of Orange Aviation commemorates: We received a call from a medical assistance firm, informing us that one of their clients was on a horseback riding track in the vast Gobi desert in Mongolia, when she was accidently kicked by a raging camel.
She was seriously injured, with a tear in one of her kidneys.
We received a call from her worried husband who sounded almost despair as he informed us that they are in the middle of nowhere, more than 200 miles away from the nearest major town and his mobile phone running out of battery.

Immediate action was requested.
Within 2 hours we managed to arrange a local rescue helicopter with an airborne medical crew on board to immediately evacuate them to the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator, were urgent medical treatment is available.
Unfortunately it was not sufficient for a full recovery treatment that was required and so we were asked to arrange a medical evacuation flight from Ulan Bator to the patient's home in Nuremburg, Germany.

Taking in consideration that there was no Ambulance jets around and that the nearest one available is actually in Europe.
We calculated 8 hours flying to destination, 10 hours for crew rest (legally obligation) and than 8 more hours for the flying ambulance evacuation back home.
We were losing time as the patient was suffering severe interior bleeding.
Once decision for the emergency flight done, it was time to start confronting and putting away the obstacles waiting in front.

For a start, as the prime issue was the ticking clock, we decided to position two pilots on stand at one of the fuel stops rout.
By doing so we avoided 10 hours of crew rest, thus gaining priceless time by making it a 16 hour mission instead of 26 hours.

Now that we got the med flight time issues behind us we could actually step strong forward ahead in order to make the medical flight operation prevail in the most efficient manner possible.

To sum it up, if an emergency evacuation flight comes up your way, make sure that upon choosing the service provider you get one that is fully familiar with the subject, got some experience in his resume and is fully dedicated to getting you in the minimum of time, at the maximum efficiency and at the minimum price.
As we, at Orange Aviation call it, the "minimax" equation.

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