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Old 29th Aug 2014, 16:49
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What is your knowledge of the civilian air ambulance market, there is 3 in the UK, one who is just about to refurbish their aircraft. REGA in Europe are a fantastic organisation.
There are no private sector air-ambulance organisations in Europe even remotely equipped to evacuate Ebola cases. The capital cost for such equipment is too high to justify the likely utilisation. This is an area way beyond the resources private sector supply and demand - the public sector has to step in, and given that we do not have dedicated publicly funded air ambulance services in Europe, that means that it falls to the military. However, as I have argued in this and previous threads, the military should bill the insurers of the casualty at a market-rate (not the cost of a C-17, but the cost of a normal air-ambulance), otherwise their intervention distorts the market.
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