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Flying Doctors Nigeria Air Ambulance Award for Medical Students
In 2013, the Flying Doctors presented a cash award to a high performing medical student in an essay competition as part of our CSR program. Reason behind our CSR project The Flying Doctors Nigeria is dedicated to providing access to healthcare across West and Central...
Dr Ola Orekunrin, Founder of Flying Doctors Nigeria Air Ambulance Listed as one of the Young Global Leaders for the World Economic Forum
What does the Flying Doctors Nigeria Air Ambulance service do? The Flying Doctors Nigeria is a regional air ambulance service working in over 10 countries across West and Central Africa; saving lives, by saving time. For more information about Dr Ola and her world...
Highlights of the Nigeria oil and gas conference 2013; Air Ambulance Services for the Oil & Gas industry
Flying Doctors has offered occupational health, remote site and offshore medical evacuation services to the oil and gas industry for nearly 10 years. See articles on Offshore Air Ambulance Medical Evacuation Remote Site Services Assistance Services Click here to read...
Air Ambulances and maternal/child mortality
When a pregnant woman experiences complications, they can be life threatening for both mother and child, and often require the specialized care found in regional hospitals. Timely air ambulance transfer to such facilities while the patient(s) receives care from...
Benefits of air ambulance transport in critical care
The benefits of air transport have been demonstrated to outweigh any stressors that flying might add, even for the sickest trauma and heart attack patients. Most air medical transports today are between hospitals i.e hospital to hospital; approximately one-third are...
Why air ambulances are important
The Association for Air Medical Services (AAMS) describes accurately why air ambulances are so essential. Transferring patients from smaller to larger hospitals to access more sophisticated and specialized healthcare system resources has been a common and increasing...
