CHIANG MAI, Thailand – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) Suchart Chomklin has commended the ministry’s helicopter team for a successful emergency medical airlift carried out during the New Year holiday period, saying the operation helped save a patient’s life.
The Northern Regional Operations Center reported that the mission, conducted in support of the National Institute for Emergency Medicine, involved the urgent transfer of a critically ill patient from Li district in Lamphun province to Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital for advanced treatment.
The operation began after the Emergency Operations Command Center requested aviation support in the early afternoon. An MNRE helicopter departed the Northern Regional Operations Center, picked up a provincial Sky Doctor medical team, and flew to a designated landing site at a school football field in Li district.
The patient, a 63-year-old man suffering from severe convulsive seizures, was transferred on board with full life-support equipment by local medical staff working with the Sky Doctor team. He was then airlifted to the 41st Wing Air Base helipad in Chiang Mai, where hospital personnel were standing by to continue treatment.
The mission lasted about one hour and 35 minutes and concluded with the helicopter’s safe return to base. (NNT)
