Who Does MedFlight Transport?
MedFlight offers transportation to people whose medical problems make it necessary for them to travel for diagnosis or treatment, and who lack the financial resources for transportation. MedFlight will also carry people whose condition or location makes it difficult or impossible for them to use other means of transportation. Typical examples of MedFlight missions include carrying cancer patients for chemotherapy, surgery or other treatment, between their home and the treatment facility; carrying people with kidney problems to obtain dialysis or kidney transplants; carrying patients with heart problems for specialized diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up; and transporting children to and from “special needs camps” such as camps for burn survivors, camps for children with renal disease and camps for children with life-threatening illnesses. MedFlight also responds to many other compelling human needs for which free air transportation would be of value. The patients flown by MedFlight mus
