Syria to launch health emergency air-based system
Syria, Health, 10/5/2005

Syria's Minister of Transportation expected on Tuesday a First Aid air-based system to deal with medical emergencies would be launched early 2006 in Syria.

In a statement to SANA, Makaram Oubeid said this project "is very significant on the economic and the services levels."

"It will bring a big number of job opportunities for pilots, engineers, doctors, nurses and technicians as it will contribute in a big way to covering all road collisions, and urgent accidents inside Syria," the minister said.

He underlined this project would be one of the most "pioneering locally and in the Arab world," mainly that a very few Arab states have applied this way of developed first-aid style using helicopters.

A private commercial company called al-Akhrass is to invest the project which coasts over $ 12 million. The government-run Civil Aviation Establishment ought to approve it according to international criterion.

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