Air Ambulance Service : Nigeria In Talks With Airbus Over Emergency Medical Helicopters

Air Ambulance Service : Nigeria holds talks with Airbus executives in France over emergency medical helicopters.

Initiative aims to establish an integrated ground-to-air emergency system to improve rapid response/reduce mortality nationwide.

Nigeria is set to boost emergency healthcare delivery as Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate holds talks with Airbus executives in France on procuring emergency medical helicopters.

Approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the initiative aims to establish an integrated ground-to-air emergency system to improve rapid response and reduce mortality nationwide.

“We’re expanding Nigeria’s public health infrastructure, but also private sector infrastructure for medical care, including emergencies,” he said during the inspection tour in a video published by Channels Television on Monday.

“Now we’re here in Lyon to look at the helicopter emergency medical services, look at the Airbus helicopters, which are the dominant helicopters used globally for the air ambulances, but fit within the health system, within the personnel that we have, within the context of the capacity that exists, and the financing model that can make it sustainable.”

According to him, the proposed system would enable faster response to trauma cases and critical medical conditions in areas with limited access to advanced healthcare facilities.

“This is taking our health sector one step further, building a health system that will serve Nigerians, that will be getting closer to the standards that anyone can expect anywhere in the world. It’s a long journey. We’re starting it,” he added.

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