Many accident victims and critically ill persons require immediate evacuation to hospitals in the bigger centres where they may be provided with highly specialized care! This is usually performed via road ambulance- – some cases however necessitate air evacuation, and we would like to consider the factors to decide whether this is the best option! [...]
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Another success story for Aerocare. Another life saved. The patient was successfully picked up at Sutherland and dropped off at Cape Town for urgent medical attention. The airstrip at Sutherland is a 1.5 km long dirt airstrip which is in a good condition. Aerocare is one of the few air ambulances that can land on [...]
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On Sunday evening Aerocare emergency air evacuation services assisted in the swift evacuation of a young 21year old farmer who suffered critical burn wounds in veld fires raging in the Bethlehem area. Jaco Nortje was celebrating his 21st birthday when a fire broke out on a farm next to the Kaallaagte road between Bethlehem and [...]
On Monday evening I was present at the emergency air evacuation of a 15 year old motorcyclist who suffered life-threatening injuries at Phakisa in Welkom. It appears that the motorcyclist fell on the course and was then struck by another bike at high speed. Doctors from Welkom made the call to Bloemfontein to assist and [...]
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At 6h35 this morning Aerocare and ER24 joined forces in the repatriation of Portugese Fooball World Cup Supporter and accident victim, Tomas Ferreira. The patient was seriously injured during the World Cup in a car crash near Bethlehem and had to be resuscitated three times. The patient was treated at the Bloemfontein Medi-Clinic for the [...]
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