9th November, 2011
AMREF Flying Doctors receives Air Ambulance Provider of the Year award!
AMREF Flying Doctors was the proud recipient of this year’s Air Ambulance Provider of the Year award at the International Travel Insurance Conference (ITIC) 2011 in Lisbon this week.
The award honours the round-the-clock medical assistance that the Flying Doctors provide to some of the world’s most remote regions.
The Flying Doctors were formed in 1957 by surgeons Sir Michael Wood, Archibald McIndoe and Thomas Rees in response to the lack of medical care available to remote communities of East Africa.
The air ambulance has since expanded and now offers emergency medical services to the countries of East Africa (Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania) and most neighbouring countries including Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi and others. AMREF Flying Doctors also supports African communities through its regular Clinical Specialist Outreach Programme.
Based in Kenya, the service works closely with local health authorities and governements providing emergency health care to the most difficult reach regions of Africa. The award citation said "AMREF Flying Doctors goes where others don’t, evacuating mass casualties from conflict zones like Mogadishu, providing helicopter rescue from Mt. Kenya or Kilimanjaro or landing on rough bush airstrips to retrieve critical patients from remote areas"
Read more about AMREF Flying Doctors.