Medical Mission Help Reaches British Station
At Rothera, the British survey station was relieved by seeing the medical evacuation team. Now they will wait for the right weather so that they can fly about 1500 miles to reach the South Pole station. There the crews will make the aircraft better by equipping it with skis for a smooth landing on ice and snow at the pole. Once they get a favorable forecast, one of the planes will fly to evacuate and the other plane will stay there in Rothera which can provide the search and rescue capability, as required. There are possibilities that the flight that will be evacuation will take a patient out of Antarctica However, the decision has not been finalized yet.
After a consultation with the medical professionals, the officials decided that the in such a medical situation, they can send the patient to a better hospital which can provide a proper care which is not available there at the station. The officials were not ready to give out more information as it is a serious situation. As officials want to keep the patient’s privacy, the NSF decided not to release any information. The flights will start to fly once the weather changes and they get a clear sky to fly.