Since its foundation, the National Air Ambulance Service (NAAS) of Russia has helped save the lives of more than 30 thousand people, including four thousand children. For 10 months of the current year 9900 patients were evacuated. Most often transportation was required for people with heart attacks, serious injuries and strokes, the press service of Rostec State Corporation said.
“This year, NAAS pilots flew 8,800 sorties, which is 29 percent higher than the figures for the whole of 2022. Sanitary helicopters come to the rescue both in remote areas with difficult natural conditions and in large megacities with heavy automobile traffic. The main patients of the air ambulance are people with strokes, heart attacks, severe injuries, victims of road accidents, pregnant women with pathologies, children and newborns,” Rostec said.
The National Air Ambulance Service allows to provide emergency medical assistance to people living in hard-to-reach areas, as well as citizens injured in emergency accidents. In 2023, the coverage of the NAAS has grown to 60 regions of the country, and the aircraft fleet – to 59 Mi-8 and Ansat helicopters. Since the service was founded, more than 30,000 people have been transported to hospitals, including 9,900 this year. NAAS helicopters are adapted for evacuation of the youngest patients, medical aviation has rescued more than four thousand children, including 1,500 infants.
NAAS was established in 2019 as a single operator of air ambulance within the framework of the federal project, which provides for the creation of a fleet of air ambulance helicopters, 130 aircraft basing points, a network of mobile refueling complexes, and helipads in the territories of more than 1,500 healthcare institutions across the country.
