Te first Chilean helicopter flight transporting COVID
vaccines took place Jan. 25, from Santiago to Quillota, a 30-minute flight. Servicios Aéreos Suma Air donated the helicopter, and Airbus supplied a pilot. Te helicopter carrying a case of 85 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines was greeted by a cheering crowd lined up for their shots. ACHHEL participated in a
larger transport on Feb. 4, where an Airbus AS350 helicopter donated by Ecocopter and flown by a company pilot transported 25 Pfizer second-dose vaccines for medical personnel from the Municipal de Vitacura Airport (SCLC), north of Santiago, to a soccer field next to the Buin hospital, 45 km away and south of the congested city, saving an hour of drive time for the temperature-sensitive vaccines. “Tese were very successful flights, and the people were
very excited to see the helicopter arrive with the vaccines,” Moraga says. “Te information that I received through the IPP was a
“The relationships built through the IPP have already demonstrated their value, and we’re just getting started.”
valuable part of the planning. We received a lot of information from associations around the world before we did the flights, and we shared that information with our volunteer operators. We were able to develop protocols based on those used in other countries to ensure strong safety measures,” says Moraga. “As we do more flights, we’ll look at having conversations with aviation, transportation, and health authorities to develop a program where the government will be able to work directly with ACHHEL’s operators to deliver
vaccines to remote areas.” Sharing information and best practices that promote the
effective use of helicopters around the world is exactly why the IPP exists, says HAI’s Viola. “As shown by the collaboration on COVID vaccine transport, the relationships built through the IPP have already demonstrated their value, and we’re just getting started. We want to hear from more organizations that would like to use the IPP to collaborate on these types of initiatives.”
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