HAL to hold national seminar on Air Ambulance

Bangalore, Sep 21 (UNI) A two-day national seminar on Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) and Air Ambulance will take off at the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd Management Academy (HMA) here from September 22.

Organised by the Rotary Wing Society of India (RWSI-Southern Region) and sponsored by HAL, the seminar would highlight the beneficial aspect of these services to the public.

National Disaster Management Authority member and IPS officer K M Singh would be the chief guest. Among the speakers who would make presentations are Mr Bill Bryant, President and Principal of Sierra Health Group, Dallas, USA and Maj Gen J K Bansal, VSM Head of NBC (Mitigation), DRDO. HAL Chairman Ashok K Baweja would chair the inaugural session, HAL said in a release here yesterday.

''In the early days of military and civil air evacuation, the primary objective, with only a few exceptions, was to move the patient to a hospital quickly - within the golden hour. Today, while speed of transportation is still as important, air medical specialists provide advanced life support for the patient in-flight or at the scene of an accident. The system is approaching the capability of a hospital emergency facility,'' Wg Cdr C D Upadhyay, HAL Chief Test Pilot and RWSI, Southern region, President said.

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