12-09-2006
Sheikh Saif orders airlifting of critical patients for treatment.
Under the directives from His Highness Lt.Gen.Sheikh Saif bin Zayed al Nahyan, the Minister of Interior, the Air wing department at the General Headquarters has airlifted three patients who needed urgent medical care from different locations to different hospitals in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain.
No sooner the directives were issued, the air wing personnel undertook the task to airlift the patients with full medical equipments and first aid assistants, reached the spot and transferred the patients to the hospitals immediately.
In the first case it was a national aged 25 years in a critical condition who was moved from Saqur hospital in Ras al Khaimah to Sheikh Khalifa hospital in Abu Dhabi.
In the second case, a 6 year old girl from Oman who was transferred to Sheikh Khalifa hospital in Abu Dhabi and in the third case a 53 year old National woman in critical condition who needed specialized medical treatment was airlifted from Ras al Khaimah to Twam hospital in Al Ain.
