Medical evacuation
547Traveling freely worldwide offers tremendous business and personal opportunities and allows you to enjoy new experiences and knowledge of another country's culture. But any travel can be fraught with health risks due to extreme entertainment, chronic or infectious diseases. Injuries and exacerbation of illnesses become a severe problem if a person is in a foreign country at that moment.
There is a need to transport him/her to his/her home country where they can provide skilled medical care. GVA is an organization that offers services for sending a sick person or a body back home. Operators of the company will quickly and professionally organize the evacuation of the patient, including emergency or ambulance teams. To get assistance, you should contact the specialists, outlining the situation. In the absence of contraindications, dangerous infectious diseases, difficulties in passing through customs, the evacuation process is carried out without delay.
Transport for medical repatriation
The choice of a vehicle for medical evacuation depends on the severity of the disease or injury, country of destination, economic factors, and the need for resuscitation and supportive procedures.
- GVA airlifts patients via air ambulance. The company provides medical escort for the client and monitors the event, being aware of the situation. Air transport is equipped with the necessary equipment, including intensive care and vital signs monitoring. It can be an oxygen mask, droppers, etc.
- Ambulances for transport over short and long distances. In vital necessity, a resuscitation ambulance complete with a professional medical team and resuscitation devices is used.
- Regular air flight when the capacity of the injured person to travel is assessed. A trained medical worker is assigned to accompany him. A stretcher is used for bed-ridden patients. The victim, or the deceased person's body, is transported to the ladder, lifted aboard the aircraft, where a particular place has already been prepared for him.
GVA is trying to provide the safest, most comfortable transportation conditions for the victim and emergency medical assistance. Realizing the danger of the situation, we try to organize everything as quickly as possible so that there are no delays. In case of emergency intervention in a hospital, the optimal mode of transport for a particular case is selected, equipped with medical and diagnostic devices. The decision to evacuate the insured tourist is made jointly with the insurance company and the attending physician of the clinic, who will confirm that the victim will typically tolerate the transportation.