IMAGES COURTESY TIM FAUCHON


BHA’s HACA set up transportation from


Nightingale Hospital in London to Sunderland in


northern England for medical personnel to provide counsel on field hospital


operations during the first wave of COVID.


The team used a field (below) belonging to Nissan (building in background) in


Sunderland as a safe landing zone.


as three months to receive payment. After hours of calls and waiting on hold, Fauchon was able to find government employees who could use purchase orders to reduce the payment time to two months, and he’s working to shorten that to two weeks. Since its beginning, Fauchon’s HACA program has pro-


vided a number of services for the UK government, from transfers of medical staff and equipment between facilities to helping with moorland firefighting when local fire crews were limited by COVID restrictions. It stands ready to support vaccine distribution as well. With the majority of the United Kingdom well served by roads and rail, the need for helicopters is limited to more-rural areas. Yet, when a helicopter is needed, Fauchon says his HACA pro- gram ensures that one is ready within two hours.


ACHHEL Supports Chilean Vaccine Distribution


Fauchon shared with fellow IPP members his efforts to increase utilization of the British helicopter industry in the UK


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COVID response. His experiences helped Chile’s Moraga prepare the Chilean helicopter industry to support vaccine distribution. In January 2021, Chile’s hospitals in rural areas began to


reach capacity. More helicopter transports were required to get patients to larger hospitals with intensive care services. At the same time, the country began to ramp up vaccine delivery. Since late 2020, military and law enforcement aircraft were used to help deliver the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to citizens in outlying areas. Chile now has agreements with


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