So I guess mitigation of Loss/cost....is not a consideration for charities?
Are you doing it just to be doing it...or to do as much "good" as possible with the funds extant?
It still gets back to cost v benefit does it not?
I once posed a question re the wisdom of IFR Ops....up in the wilds of Pennsylvania....where we would lift from the Hospital Pad...fly to a a rural Airport...meet an Ambulance with the Patient...transferred from a safe, warm, capable Medical Facility...transfer the Patient to the Helicopter...depart the Airport...transit to the Hospital...and make an IFR Approach to the Hospital Helipad with very high minimums due to the Hills surrounding the Heliport (then in the case of a Missed Approach)...transit to another Airport, transfer the Patient to yet another Ambulance....transport the Patient to the Hospital and transfer the Patient into Facility along with all the attendent check-in routines....to Yes....wait for the advanced medical treatment.
The Patient could have waited in the first Medical Facility with no undue stress until the weather improved and the flight could be made Hospital to Hospital in one go with just two transfers in the process.
I argued the "Do No Harm!" rule was being violated in the pursuit of proving our company was the first in doing routine IFR Ops.
We have to remember the Patient's best interests in all this we do and propose to do.