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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
What we know about MERS The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is an illness caused by a virus called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). It can be very severe in carriers; as about 3 to 4 out of every 10 patients reported with MERS have...
Dr Dan Hankins Highlights the Need to Protect Air Ambulances
Dr Dan Hankins is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a retired emergency medicine and EMS physician. His article highlights the importance of air ambulance services in his home state of Minnesota, due to the low number of specialist centre...
Flying Doctors Daily Dose
Healthcare news from around the world brought to you courtesy of Africa’s leading air ambulance service. 19th September 2017 1. Gross inequality in mental health spending revealed in the NHS. Those who need help most maybe missing out Read more here:...
Travelling with Children? Be health and safety conscious
Travelling with children can be really fun mostly if it is for leisure and/or family vacation. It is usually a bonding period where the parents get to relax and enjoy quality time with their children. However, regardless of the purpose of the trip, parents need to be...
Senegal to China: The Fall
Being one of the few air ambulance companies that can undertake long journeys with a single stop because we make use of long range aircrafts for our operations, we got a request to evacuate someone on a long distance flight from Senegal to China recently. Patient had...
Flying Doctors Daily Dose
Healthcare news from around the world brought to you courtesy of Africa’s leading air ambulance service 14th September 2017 Tensions over the future of healthcare in the United States continue as republican senators introduce another healthcare overhaul bill... Read...