Photo by Anton Tushin
Rostec State Corporation handed over to the National Air Medical Services (NAMS) he first shipping of specialized aircrafts - four Kazan Ansat and four Mi-8 helicopters. The total number of helicopters shipped by Rostec by 2021 will comprise 104 Kazan Ansats and 46 Mi-8 in ambulance configurations.
The transfer of the aircrafts with specialized painting and a new modified look took place on the premises of the M. Mil Moscow Helicopter plant's flight-testing complex in v. Tomilino.
The event was attended by the Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, the Minister of Trade and Industry Denis Manturov and the CEO of Rostec State Corporation Sergey Chemezov.
Besides that, a conference on developing air medical services was held during the event. Regional leaders also participated in the conference.
The supplied helicopters are real-life flying ambulances. The machines have the full scope of modern equipment to diagnose and provide medical care during the flight including a special life-support module to transport newborns.
The helicopters will perform medical duties in St.-Petersburg, Amur, Leningrad, Moscow, Tver, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Magadan, Sverdlovsk Oblasts and in Khabarovsk Krai.
NAMS is planning to carry out over 15.5 thousand evacuations annually and gradually build up the service scope.
By the end of 2021, the NAMS medical air fleet is supposed to be able to cover the whole territory of Russia with sanitary flights.
This would help make hi-tech medical care more available and significantly increase the number of saved lives due to the rapid actions taken by the Air Medical services.
Creating a single operator for Air Medical Service entails creating 130 aircraft stationing sites, a network of mobile fuel filling complexed, helicopter decks on the premises of over 1500 healthcare institutions.
To provide continuous functioning, the actions of air medical service will be synchronized with the ERA-GLONASS service tied to a universal phone number 112 in all the regions of Russia and the Uniform State Health Information System (USHIS).
The federal project on developing Air Medical Services is carried out by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Trade and Industry by the instruction from the President of Russia.
Rostec has been taking an active part in the project since 2016.
At the moment, the holding Russian Helicopters has supplied the regions with 60 machines equipped with medical modules. The helicopters have carried out over 12 thousand flights and transported over 17.5 thousand patients including about 3 thousand children.
In 2018 Russian Air Medical Service made 5500 flights providing timely healthcare to 7500 people which is 75% more than in 2017.
It has been already mentioned that the project to create the NAMS was initiated by Rostec State Corporation in 2017.
In January 2018 the initiative was supported by Vladimir Putin.
At the end of last year, a regulation by the Russian Government the NAMS was appointed the sole provider of air medical services in the country's regions.
