THE nation’s first public air ambulance took off seven months in the past. The targets had been to expedite the transportation of emergency circumstances to well being services and to have the ability to attain areas that will ordinarily be unattainable through the standard highway ambulance.
As we wrote yesterday, the Helidrive Zimbabwe air ambulance service has achieved an ideal deal to bridge the well being entry hole throughout the nation in a fashion unimaginable earlier than the Zimbabwe-Russia partnership was consummated.
A complete of 267 sufferers, amongst them 76 kids underneath the age of 18, have been airlifted to well being services since then. The service presents free transfers for critically sick sufferers to main well being centres throughout the nation.
In Bulawayo, Helidrive Zimbabwe’s medical groups have airlifted 30 sufferers, comprising 20 adults and 10 kids, six of whom had been underneath the age of 1.
“In January alone, we recorded 14 cases in Bulawayo comprising five males and nine females while in February, we had 16 cases. For Harare, we have had 75 cases this year, comprising 60 adults and 15 children, eight of whom were under the age of one,” Helidrive Zimbabwe’s chief medical physician, Dr Evgenii Kibakin informed us.
This partnership is one more tangible instance of the age-old, sturdy relationship between our nation and Russia.
It is aiding in transferring sufferers to well being services, which is essential as time is at all times vital in occasions of acute sickness. A affected person who will get medical consideration earlier stands probability of surviving than one who takes a day or two to get it.
We are assured that a lot of the 267 sufferers who acquired the Helidrive Zimbabwe service acquired the immediate service they wanted at hospitals and are doing nicely.
Apart from providing pace, we discover it vital that this service can be being offered freed from cost.
Equally vital is the truth that the initiative has created 300 native jobs — 40 pilots, 50 medical doctors, 100 nurses, 100 dispatchers and 10 engineers.
Considering the great work that Helidrive Zimbabwe is doing for the folks, we recommend that our Government and Russia increase the service by procuring extra air ambulances.
This will be sure that extra sufferers anyplace throughout the nation can get pleasure from this free, expeditious service. Furthermore, this can imply extra jobs for our folks.
However, as Helidrive Zimbabwe soars, allow us to be sure that the standard highway ambulance service is reinvigorated as nicely.
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