Critical care team flying to retrieve East Timorese President
A CareFlight International critical care medical team is flying from Darwin to retrieve wounded East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta.
The medi-jet has just taken off from Darwin for the one-hour dash to Dili.
The CareFlight International team comprises a specialist retrieval doctor and critical care nurse.
An Australian military helicopter will meet the medical team on the medi-jet’s arrival in Dili and fly them to the military hospital where the injured President underwent emergency surgery.
The helicopter will then fly the president and the CareFlight International medical team back to the waiting medi-jet at Dili airport.
Mr Horta is now in a critical but stable condition having suffered two bullet wounds.
The President will be treated on one of the jet’s mobile intensive care modules and flown back to Darwin, then transferred to the Royal Darwin Hospital for further treatment.
Subject to the time spent during the transfer process in Dili, the CareFlight International medi-jet is expected back in Darwin around around 5 pm Sydney time (3.30 pm Darwin time).
CareFlight International is operated by NRMA CareFlight, in partnership with Aspen Medical and Pel-Air Aviation, providing international and interstate medical retrieval missions by medi-jet from the charity’s bases in Darwin and Sydney.
CareFlight International – in partnership with Aspen Medical and Pel-Air Aviation
ENDS: For further information please call NRMA CareFlight spokesman Ian Badham on 0418 245 748.
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