Let more helicopters fly
From March 2019 to March 2020, my country's aviation medical service provided 1085 wounded and sick people.
my country has less than 0.01 medical rescue helicopters per million people, which is far from meeting the rescue needs of the people.
At the signing event of People’s Rescue Channel held a few days ago, Shan Chunchang and other experts called for the establishment of a sound and normalized aviation medical rescue system to allow rescue helicopters to fly in my country.
Shan Chunchang is the leader of the State Council's emergency management expert group, the deputy director of the expert committee of the National Disaster Reduction Commission, and the counselor of the State Council.
He has presided over the investigation and handling of many serious accidents.
At that time, there was no emergency rescue helicopter that could fly. This became one of Sun Sunchang's deepest memories of disaster rescue.
The sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic is a big test for the country.
According to Sun Weiguo, Director General of the General Aviation Branch of the China Air Transport Association, from January 20 to May 18, 141 general aviation companies across the country used 1,002 aircraft to perform 378 epidemic prevention and control missions, and transported more than 90 kinds of medicines and materials. Ton.
The advantages of general aviation, such as fast, efficient, and flexible, have fully emerged, opening up a "new emergency channel" for the lives of the people.
This air "emergency channel" first showed its power in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
In that year, hundreds of helicopters, equivalent to a quarter of the total number of military and civilian helicopters in the country, flew more than a thousand sorties during the earthquake rescue period.
In 2008, it was also called my country's "first year of helicopter rescue development" by the industry.
Sun Weiguo said that my country’s aviation emergency rescue system has made some progress, and the aviation emergency rescue capability has been rapidly improved. A model of combining state rescue with enterprise rescue has basically formed, which is based on national power, supplemented by civilian power, and The role played in the incident has become increasingly prominent.
In order to strengthen the aviation medical rescue system, in March 2019, the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the National Health Commission jointly issued the "Aviation Medical Rescue Joint Pilot Work Implementation Plan", and started joint pilot work in 12 provinces (cities). Increase support for emergency rescue, medical rescue and other service areas with obvious social welfare characteristics.
"It is the future development trend to gradually expand the pre-hospital medical emergency system from the traditional land to sea and aviation, and form a three-dimensional rescue system." said Wang Fei, deputy director of the Medical Resources Division of the Medical Administration and Hospital Administration of the National Health Commission. The construction of the former medical rescue and aviation rescue system is an important part of my country's medical system construction.
Yao Liping, chairman of Asia Pacific Pilot (Beijing) Emergency Rescue Service Co., Ltd., said that the advancement of the joint pilot work of aviation medical rescue has a very obvious guiding and stimulating effect on the market.
The more companies involved in aviation rescue and the more aircraft there are, the faster it will form an aviation rescue service that is "available to everyone and affordable to everyone".
As of August 31, 2020, my country has 502 general aviation companies that have obtained general aviation operating licenses, and the number of general aviation aircraft in the industry is 2,745.
Our reporter Wang Junping
Our reporter Wang Junping