ROYAL Jet, the international luxury flight services company chaired by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan and the very first company in the Middle East to have been granted a commercial licence to provide medical evacuation services, has further enhanced its capability to meet the steady growth and demand for Medevac services.
Following a significant increase in Royal Jet’s Medevac missions in 2011 as compared with the previous year, the company has taken substantial steps aimed at providing further capacity and flexibility as well as ensuring availability of aircraft and its full range of extremely reliable and dependable Medevac services.
“Being one of only a few Medevac-operators worldwide that cover the full range of cabin sizes, Royal Jet has clearly established its leadership role in the air ambulance market,” said Shane O’Hare, president and CEO of Royal Jet.
All of Royal Jet’s Air Ambulances are equipped with the most advanced onboard medical equipment and technologies including an intensive care unit (ICU), ventilators, and even incubators for neo-natal requirements. Manned and operated by specially-trained and experienced in-house medical team consisting of a doctor and a paramedic, Royal Jet’s Medevac missions provide bed-to-bed service starting from any medical facility where a patient may be coming from to the next medical facility or hospital that the patient is destined to go to.
Significantly, Royal Jet’s medical team includes medical specialists who have been carefully selected in accordance with patients’ needs and requirements, and are all capable of providing the highest level of medical care and attention at every mission due to their specialist training in Aeromedicine – a specialty on its own which is absolutely necessary to be part of any Medevac mission.
While most of Royal Jet’s Medevac missions begin or end in the UAE, it has also carried out a number of missions from or to many cities across the Middle East, Europe, Africa and America. Additionally, Royal Jet has likewise conducted a significant number of Medevac missions from high risk areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan.