Sources from Coimbatore have stated that an air ambulance service of a private hospital in Tamilnadu, claimed to be the first such facility to be run by a hospital in the country, will be launched on June 25. IAF chief Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa would inaugurate the 'Ganga Air Ambulance' helicopter service of Ganga Hospital.
It was stated that the 1992 made Agusta Westland 109C model twin-engine helicopter will provide emergency medical services in the region apart from handling emergency airlifting of patients of the Ganga Hospital.
The hospital Director S Raja Sabapathy said that the service would be
operated in association with Delhi-based OSS Air Management under a two-year
agreement.
He said the ambulance will be equipped with emergency support systems suction unit, oxygen provision, pulse and pressure monitor and defibrillator, the ambulance can carry two patients at a time. A helipad has been created in the campus of Ganga Nursing College on the outskirts and approved by the Director General of Civil Aviation.
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