Medic’Air ready for Ebola outbreak
With Ebola once again in Africa, French air ambulance company Medic’Air has started to prepare itself for evacuations from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the surrounding area, where the disease is currently contained
With Ebola once again in Africa, French air ambulance company Medic’Air has started to prepare itself for evacuations from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the surrounding area, where the disease is currently contained.
Hervé Raffin, General Manager of the company, said that the challenge of evacuating an infected patient from DRC would be far more complex than the evacuations completed out of West Africa, where Ebola last took hold, and where a flight to the Canary Islands could be completed in only a few hours. There has been, he added, no preparation for an outbreak of Ebola in the central African region, and the need for long-distance transfers that could ensue. The team has thus been making preparations, using its Challenger 604 jet, to make ready for medical evacuation of an Ebola patient, should the need arise.